Le mer. 27 mars 2024 à 02:37, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> a écrit : > > This is something to ask Apache lawyers about.
You could ask there: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL > Yes, we're allowed to > distribute this public US government data. https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/national-software-reference-library-nsrl/subscribe/redistribution In particular: --- The RDS is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. --- > No, that doesn't mean we > can distribute it under the Apache license. I think we can[1], but it is of no consequence (ASL will not apply to the public domain files). Quoting from Wikipedia[2]: --- The legal scholar Melville Nimmer has written that "it is axiomatic that material in the public domain is not protected by copyright, even when incorporated into a copyrighted work". ---- Regards, Gilles [1] Within the files, there is a link to the original source (NIST). [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain > I can't tell. The legal nitpicking is beyond me. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:46 PM Orion Yeung <orion.ye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I was unsure how to identify the component in the subject header here, but > > I'd noticed you've got the standard reference NIST data in your repo, here: > > > > https://github.com/apache/commons-math/tree/master/commons-math-legacy/src/test/resources/org/apache/commons/math4/legacy/stat/data > > > > that we - on a statistics Rust crate - realized we needed to stop > > redistributing in our repo. *I'm not a legal person, but I'm providing the > > heads up as it may be a copyright violation. *Feel free to ask me for > > clarifications. > > > > Some relevant links, > > > > [Fedora mailing list discussing this data when using the crate] ( > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal%40lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LSM6MO6TAHTIDNF5COCA6UWQDHWRF3AH/ > > ) > > [statrs GitHub issue mentioning this]( > > https://github.com/statrs-dev/statrs/issues/195) > > > > Best, > > -- > > Orion Yeung > > he / him --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
