On Nov 26, 5:53 pm, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Robert Dodier <[email protected]> > wrote:
> > Now one might suppose that the DLMF is a work of a federal > > agency (NIST) and therefore cannot be copyrighted. > > The arrangement is this: NIST contracts with the authors > > (not NIST employees, I gather) to write it, then the authors > > assign the copyright to NIST. > Is that legal? Well, I dunno anything about that, but that's the explanation I was given when I wrote to the editor-in-chief a few years ago. (Probably I should have said so to begin with.) best Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
