Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > 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 thin

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Ben Finney writes ("Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries"): > > One large problem: I can't see that the above conditions grant > > freedom to redistribute in modified or unmodified form.

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

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

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Ben Finney writes ("Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries"): > One large problem: I can't see that the above conditions grant freedom > to redistribute in modified or unmodified form. That fails the DFSG, by > my reading. This is not a problem here

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Ben Finney writes: > One large problem: I can't see that the above conditions grant freedom > to redistribute in modified or unmodified form. That fails the DFSG, by > my reading. Another large problem: the stated conditions do not grant freedom for the recipient to

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Rytis writes: > Apparently, lawyers of the US Commerce Department didn't want to give > up property rights but they modified the license to say the following > [1]. > > --- > This Software was created by U.S. Government employees and therefore > is not subject to copyright

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Dear debian-legal, I'd like to follow up concering this previous thread. As advised by Paul, I contacted a month ago developers of X13. They seem to be very nice people and they forwarded my request to the legal department. Apparently, lawyers of the US Commerce Department didn't want to give

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

* Paul R. Tagliamonte: > Have a link to 3-4 such webpages I can take a look at? “Copyright laws differ internationally. While a U.S. government work is not protectable under U.S. copyright laws, the work may be protected under the copyright laws of other jurisdictions when used in these

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Have a link to 3-4 such webpages I can take a look at? Paul On Jan 15, 2016 2:47 AM, "Hendrik Weimer" wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > so you wrote on your blog six years ago that distributing works done by > US > > government institutions is "a

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

> Rytis writes: > > > US Goverment public domain issue has been discussed a few times in this > > mailing list [1]. According to the interpretation by [2], this would > > fall into public domain abroad as well and second part of the above > > licence snippet may be

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Charles Plessy writes: > so you wrote on your blog six years ago that distributing works done by US > government institutions is "a trap". Do you have concrete examples of cases > where people fell in that trap and got hurt since then ? The "trap" is a reference to the

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Rytis writes: > US Goverment public domain issue has been discussed a few times in this > mailing list [1]. According to the interpretation by [2], this would > fall into public domain abroad as well and second part of the above > licence snippet may be unenforceable.

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

[ The following is the views of me, personally. They are not the views of either the Debian FTP Team, nor those of the US Federal Government, my employer ] On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:35:15PM +0100, Rytis wrote: > US Goverment public domain issue has been discussed a few times in this >

Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

Dear all, I am working on packaging a library developed by US Census Bureau. All information about it can be found here: https://www.census.gov/srd/www/x13as/ As it is developed by part of the US Government, it is thus considered as uncopyrighted at least in the US. Here is the relevant part