In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hyman Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it should turn out that the courts do not uphold the validity > of these licenses (which, given the JMRI case, appears unlikely), > then I believe you could shortly thereafter expect congress to > change copyright law to make them valid. After all, agencies of > the U.S. government itself distribute software under the GPL: > <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/license.cfm>
The parts of that software that were written by the NSA are public domain. The software as a whole is distributed under GPL because that's the license the non-NSA parts are under, but if you wanted to pick out the NSA parts and do something with them that is against the GPL, that would be fine. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
