Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:36:05PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:

> government funding. That's a legitimate issue. Software developed by the
> government, or under government contract, ideally should be considered
> to be in the public domain; the government, representing the people,
> paid for its development, so one could reasonably argue that it should
> be freely reusable by any American citizen for any purpose, including

Title 17 U.S.C.

§ 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of
the United States Government, but the United States Government is not
precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by
assignment, bequest, or otherwise. 

Obviously that isn't the whole story (and this only only the federal
government...).

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