Stewart Stremler said:
> Imagine the uproar of $despised_corporation took code out of the
> public domain and relicensed it with their $oppressive_license --
> there
> would be an uproar. Cries of "theft!" would ring out. Passionate
> denunciations would be posted to slashdot. The skies would shake with
> the wrath of the assembled geeks....
Software developed under government contract is in the public domain.
JPL released a database engine many years ago, that became a part of
several "closed source" databases. I don't remember all the details
(it's been 20 years now) but it does and did happen, and now hue and
cry arose.
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