Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Hendrik Weimer a écrit : > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > > The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is > > really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a > > rare case (for instance, some works of U. S. government employees). > > US government works are only in the public domain when distributed > within the US. In all other countries that have signed the Berne > Convention you still need a license, which should also apply to many > Debian mirrors. > > http://www.quantenblog.net/free-software/us-copyright-international
Hi, at least for the Debian point of view, what I can say is that it redistributes public domain US government works outside US without license, and that the FTP team does not seem to find it problematic, as in my experience it still accepts packages containing such works. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111115223049.gm25...@merveille.plessy.net
