Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Fri Mar 14 22:10:54 UTC 2003


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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