[License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sat May 3 19:15:26 UTC 2014


Henrik Ingo scripsit:

> Does the US government grant itself patents, and if so, what does it do
> with those patents?

In the case of 6630507, they apply criminal sanctions to people who
seek to make use of the patented technology.  Google for [patent 6630507].

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