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

[Richard Fontana]

On Sat, 3 May 2014 22:07:19 +0300
Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi> wrote:
 
> Does the US government grant itself patents, 

Yes.

> and if so, what does it
> do with those patents?

Many are licensed to the private sector for revenue. 

 - RF