> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org] On > Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 11:28 AM > To: license-discuss@opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: (no subject) > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) > <cem.f.karan....@mail.mil < Caution- > mailto:cem.f.karan....@mail.mil > > wrote: > > > > The issue is that > 'voluntary' doesn't mean the same thing as 'gratuitous'; I work for the > Government on a voluntary, but not gratuitous basis. > > > I certainly hope that nobody in the U.S. works for the Government or anyone > else on a non-voluntary basis, "except as a punishment for > crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". > > > > If I, as a Government > employee, accept work from a volunteer without a well-defined contract > in > place regarding payment, there is a chance that someone could send > Congress > a > bill for their contributions, and I could be sent to jail for having > committed > funds I don't have. > > > > Though nobody has ever been prosecuted, much less sentenced, under the ADA. > In any case, anyone can send a bill to Congress for any reason: whether it > gets paid is another story. Francis Hopkinson sent a such a bill > for designing the American flag, asking to be paid a "Quarter Cask of the > Public Wine", but Congress denied it on the grounds that > Hopkinson was already a paid member of Congress at the time.
I agree, but there have been administrative punishments for violating it. Moreover, just because no-one has yet been sent to jail for violating the ADA doesn't mean that no-one ever will. > -- > John Cowan Caution-http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan < > Caution-http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan > co...@ccil.org < Caution- > mailto:co...@ccil.org > > Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic > realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, > philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists and neurologists, > along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians. - Russ > Rymer Thanks, Cem Karan
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