Rytis <[email protected]> writes: > US Goverment public domain issue has been discussed a few times in this > mailing list [1]. According to the interpretation by [2], this would > fall into public domain abroad as well and second part of the above > licence snippet may be unenforceable.
Unfortunately, this interpretation is wrong. I wrote about this some time ago when there was yet another discusion on debian-legal: <http://quantenblog.net/free-software/us-copyright-international> > I wonder therefore whether it is legally sound to state licence as > 'public-domain' for the package and include the licence and disclaimer > text from the website. Would the package under this license qualify as > free, non-free or should be outside Debian? In my opinion, such software should not be distributed by Debian because it puts mirror operators located outside of the US at risk. Hendrik
