begin Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere quotation:
> However, you could certainly make an excellent argument that
> software that becomes public domain ab initio by statute (e.g.,
> created directly by USA Federal employees in the scope of their
> employment) and that is available in source code form _is_
> OSD-compliant.
It is worth noting that the distribution notes for ncompress read as
follows:
It is not even clear if anyone can "own" 'compress', since original
developer Spencer Thomas, myself, and others placed the code in the
public domain long before the adoption of the Berne copyright
convention.
Of course, this is simply an amusing anecdote, and not entirely
relevant to the thread.
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