Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is > really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a > rare case (for instance, some works of U. S. government employees).
US government works are only in the public domain when distributed within the US. In all other countries that have signed the Berne Convention you still need a license, which should also apply to many Debian mirrors. http://www.quantenblog.net/free-software/us-copyright-international Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
