Re: Govt Source Code Policy

The years I spent writing software for defense contractors tells me that the SW is marked 'copyright ' all over it. Paid for with tax dollars or not, the company that wrote it does it's best to keep the copyright for it. IMO this is going to run into the same issue that GPL has, someone is going

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > Code written by Govt. employees is 'Public Domain', meaning specifically > exempted from copyright. > > However, most? government software is written by contractors, and not > published or shared. I don't

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:18 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" writes: > > If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work, > > it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have > greater > >

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

"Greg Rundlett (freephile)" writes: > If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work, > it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater > access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into > proprietary

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

Code written by Govt. employees is 'Public Domain', meaning specifically exempted from copyright. However, most? government software is written by contractors, and not published or shared. I don't know for sure, but I imagine that a large amount of that work is under a proprietary license. I

RE: Govt Source Code Policy

I was under the impression that code written by the government was public domain.  You and I (and private companies) paid the taxes that generated that code, so releasing it in anything less than a public domain is doing a disservice. Back when I worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs