Re: Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:31:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Damn.  Did some more research, and you appear to be correct with respect 
> to the most recent interpretations of the law.  :-P  The current 
> interpretation of 17 USC Sect. 105 is that such works are 
> copyright-controlled in countries which have copyright control over the 
> works of their own governments.

Also, public domain in the U.S. means that any U.S. citizen can assert
copyright over such works (or derivatives).

So we can GPL such works, for all the difference that makes.

-- 
Raul