[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

[Tzeng, Nigel H.]

On 8/18/16, 3:57 PM, "License-discuss on behalf of Lawrence Rosen"
<license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org on behalf of lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
wrote:


>Nigel Tzeng wrote:
>> The issue here is for code that is potentially quite substantial.  I
>>would think that would be a different scenario.
>
>If I include the works of Shakespeare in my software, it would of course
>be substantial and yet still be public domain almost everywhere (?).

If patents aren't a concern then okay.  Copyright lasts longer than
patents so for anything that is in the public domain because of age then
no patents would still apply.

There isn¹t a lot of code that has aged out.  Only code written between
before 1963 and didn¹t get a renewal.