Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * Walter Landry: > >> The EADL data was created by US Government employees (Lawrence >> Livermore). So there is no copyright in the US. Also, in the US, >> there is no copyright in a set of facts. However, as a courtesy, you >> should preserve the credits. > > Debian is also available in Europe, where the U.S. government is not > barred by U.S. law from obtaining and enforcing copyright of its > works. Europeanl law also has copyright-like protections for certain > collections of facts.
In practice, Debian already distributes these kinds of works. http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/openjpeg/openjpeg_1.5.2-3_copyright See the entry for applications/mj2/meta_out.* So I think it is fine in this case as well. > Frederic-Emmanuel, the license you quoted does not seem to give > permission to make modifications (and redistribute them). Only > permission of unmodified copies seems to be allowed. True. I do not think it matters. Cheers, Walter Landry