On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com> wrote: > > It is true that this public domain result doesn't apply outside the U.S. But > if you apply a valid open source license to it – such as Apache 2.0 – that > should be good enough for everyone who doesn't live in the U.S. and > irrelevant for us here.
Larry, are you suggesting that Cem considers using some statement more or less like this, rather than a new license? This U.S. Federal Government work is not copyrighted and dedicated to the public domain in the USA. Alternatively, the Apache-2.0 license applies outside of the USA ? On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <m...@kl.nl> wrote: > > Is that the correct interpretation of the Berne convention? The convention > assigns copyright to foreigners of a signatory state with at least as strong > protection as own nationals. Since US government does not attract copyright > I am unsure if they can attract copyright in other jurisdictions. Maarten, are you suggesting then that the lack of copyright for a U.S. Federal Government work would just then apply elsewhere too and that using an alternative Apache license would not even be needed? -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne +1 650 799 0949 | pombreda...@nexb.com DejaCode : What's in your code?! at http://www.dejacode.com nexB Inc. at http://www.nexb.com _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss