Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the case of NASA, being US government, I think that license may be a > poorly worded "this work is Public Domain"... I may be wrong though, > especially given that it's 03:48 here, so don't quote me on that.
Yep. It's not a license, merely a restatement of the fact that government agencies (and government employees doing their government jobs) are not allowed to hold copyrights, but must assign their work into the public domain. The underlying idea is that these works were funded by tax dollars and are must therefore be available to all tax payers. This is also the basis of the Freedom of Information Act, which requires public access to all non-classified government documents. -- Raul
