Re: CDF ?

[Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>]

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On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
> > In the case of NASA, being US government, I think that license may be a
> > poorly worded "this work is Public Domain"...  I may be wrong though,
> > especially given that it's 03:48 here, so don't quote me on that.
> 
> Yep.  It's not a license, merely a restatement of the fact that
> government agencies (and government employees doing their government
> jobs) are not allowed to hold copyrights, but must assign 
> their work into the public domain.
> 
> The underlying idea is that these works were funded by tax dollars
> and are must therefore be available to all tax payers.  This is
> also the basis of the Freedom of Information Act, which requires 
> public access to all non-classified government documents.

So basically, suppose I package cdf (which I already have), will it be
included in main? And will programs that depend on it be included in main
also? And finally, I understand that it is Public Domain of US tax payers,
but Debian is a global organization. Maybe this puts such software in a
non-us status? I really hope not.

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Konstantinos Margaritis

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