Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

["Chloe Hoffman" <chloehoffman@hotmail.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathanael Nerode" <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
To: <pmachard@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium


> I'm going to deal with these one at a time, to avoid really long messages.
>
>         * The Earth texture was created by NASA using data from the MODIS
>                 instrument aboard the Terra satellite.? Further
information is
> available
>                 from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
>
> If it was really created by NASA -- which is part of the US government -- 
then
> it is in the public domain, like all creations of the US government.
>

While a work may be in the public domain in the U.S., it may be under
copyright elsewhere. So, e.g., while works by the U.S. government may be
public domain in the U.S., they may remain under copyright in other
countries. However, the U.S. government may license their works and thus
give permissions with respect to these foreign copyrights.