<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:41 PM Smith, McCoy <<a href="mailto:mccoy.smith@intel.com">mccoy.smith@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-5670616130381677084WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">But if it’s public domain, the government has no right to dictate how those modifications are subsequently licensed. That’s sort of the whole point of public
domain.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Government code is only public domain if it is written by actual government *employees* like Arthur David Olson (creator of the Olson timezone database and supporting code, now maintained at <<a href="https://www.iana.org/time-zones">https://www.iana.org/time-zones</a>>. If software written by government *contractors*, which much of it is, its copyright status is whatever the contract says, and typically the contractor retains that copyright.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>Note that nobody these days would clamor for fundamental laws of *the theory<br>of kangaroos*, showing why pseudo-kangaroos are physically, logically,<br>metaphysically impossible. Kangaroos are wonderful, but not *that* wonderful.<br> --Daniel Dennett on zombies<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>