Re: Using NASA Imagery

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Does anyone know if NASA conditions [1] are DFSG-free? According to
> what's written there, it seems to me that they're public domain
> (NASA still images; audio files; video; and computer files used in
> the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and
> polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted.""), but I
> want to make sure.

Because NASA as a US government agency can't copyright things it
produces directly, they're usually DFSG free. (It's the equivalent of
public domain in the US.) [Specific examples of work are needed to
figure out whether that's the case in a specific instance.]


Don Armstrong

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