Re: How to free US governmental code

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "OS" == Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> writes:
> 
> OS> In one of the packages I am currently working on (idlastro [1]), some
> OS> files have the following license [2]:
> 
> OS> | Copyright 1992, The Regents of the University of California. ...
> 
> Since the copyright is The Regents of the University of California, one
> wonders whether the their relicensing statement, where they dropped the
> 4th clause retoactively, covers this, too.
> 
> I can't find the instance of that statement which I saved, nor via goog,
> so I cannot be sure whether it limited the relicensing to software which
> was released under the original BSD license, or coverred all software
> copyrighted by the Regents.

I found something here

  ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

I do not think it applies in this case.

Cheers,
Walter Landry