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Re: Trilinos licensing



> Sandia is a US federal government institution; works created by US
> federal government employees as part of their work cannot have
> copyright; they are always in the public domain.

The "public domain" statement implicitly refers to a piece of
3rd-party code, murmurhash
<https://code.google.com/p/smhasher/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk>, which
is released "as public domain" and part of which is included in
Trilinos.

--Nico


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:54 AM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "NS" == Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> NS> I was also a little worried about the "public domain" disclaimer.
>
> Sandia is a US federal government institution; works created by US
> federal government employees as part of their work cannot have
> copyright; they are always in the public domain.
>
> A widely distributed example is selinux.
>
> Notwithstanding the laws in the non-common-law countries,


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