* James Cloos:

>>>>>> "NS" == Nico Schlömer <nico.schloe...@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.

| The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government
| works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works
| abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are
| copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such
| protection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or
| for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its
| works abroad.

(House Report No. 94-1476)

> A widely distributed example is selinux.

This code has been released explicitly to the public domain, so the
situation is different.


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