Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Sep 7 19:36:18 UTC 2011


On 09/07/2011 03:30 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Which part of my answer wasn't correct, by the way?

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government

It is far more complicated than your statement that "When U.S.
Government employees write software on government time, it is public
domain by law; they need make no disclaimer of rights, it's just
automatically so."

~tom

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