On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Richard Fontana <font...@sharpeleven.org> wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2014 22:07:19 +0300 > Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote: > >> Does the US government grant itself patents, > > Yes. > >> and if so, what does it >> do with those patents? > > Many are licensed to the private sector for revenue.
That is so perverse I cannot even formulate words to explain how I feel about that... Wrt the original question it seems there are good grounds to ask federal employees to pony up an actual open source license, especially one of those that includes a patent license. That said, it seems most will agree that the public domain copyright is for all intents and purposes open source. I suppose this is comparable to how artistic license is open source but preferably you'd use a better license. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-5697354 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/henrik-ingo/3/232/8a7 _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
