For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Brian Behlendorf scripsit:

> So I have no right to create a derivative work of a public domain work and
> release that derivative work under a license of my choice?  For example, I
> can not take PD code and incorporate it into Apache httpd? I must
> misunderstand what public domain means, then.

Oh yes, you can do that.  But the derivative work must be genuinely a derivative
work, and not just a minor touch-up of the public-domain original.

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