Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Sami Liedes: >> This certainly seems to make the works effectively PD in the US; >> however it almost seems as if that was carefully worded to _not_ place >> works in the PD, only to make the US government unable to enforce >> their copyright under the US law.
> AFAIK, this is indeed the standard interpretation: Hm, do we have anything in Debian with a "this is U.S. government work, so copyright does not apply to it" license status? I seem to remember that -legal once concluded that it was as good as "public domain", but I cannot find it in the archives. In any case, it is a bit troublesome that copyrightable *parts* of such works might have found their way into other pieces of software which do, as wholes, have reasonable licenses. On the other hand, I think it is common for countries only to award copyright protection to works produced in foreign countries only to the extent that copyright exists in the country of origin. But I may be wrong. -- Henning Makholm "*Tak* for de ord. *Nu* vinker nobelprisen forude." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
