-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > 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.
So basically, suppose I package cdf (which I already have), will it be included in main? And will programs that depend on it be included in main also? And finally, I understand that it is Public Domain of US tax payers, but Debian is a global organization. Maybe this puts such software in a non-us status? I really hope not. - -- Konstantinos Margaritis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN1qgufalfJok8qABAQF88AQAjoAQ/hoA7OnuSu6dR5P2XETi+sC/V2T8 UQYgaKBJ0rbdybSqDvKW+9rMQ2Koh2kilHXFC2FxZfgEAUO0u2bb/o5RSKEFt22P k6dZrwhCGsR8eYV/ZMAhjdhFL2P04I+KjNGRGURCtoK65Jmt9/NvuisibHudcsdZ jiX5FRpDtDo= =fvJ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
