Ben Finney writes ("Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries"): > The cases are different, this license text grants no permission to > redistribute at all. > > If you think it does, what text do you see that grants permission to > redistribute in modified or unmodified form?
You mean that `use, copy and create derivative works' might not include distribution of copies ? I think that's a tendentious reading. I think we can discount the risk that the US government would attack distributors of free software on such a basis. However, I agree that it would be better if it said: use, copy, modify and distribute the Software and works derived from it or something. Ian.