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 -- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
