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Can someone explain how some of projects can be MIT-licensed (or anything-else-licensed) as they claim? Aren't they necessarily in the public domain given that
by wfunction 9y ago
Can someone explain how some of projects can be MIT-licensed (or anything-else-licensed) as they claim? Aren't they necessarily in the public domain given that they're works of the U.S. Government?
- dagw 9y agoCertain government agencies and subsidiaries are exempt from having their work considered "government work" and can thus claim copyright if they want. I'm guessing the NSA is such and agency. Also if the work was actually done by a contractor then there are other exemptions.
- wfunction 9y agoThanks, but I'm not sure that's it. For example, when I look at at [1], I see an apparent contradiction with [2]. It almost seems like they don't know what they're doing, but surely that's because I'm misunderstanding what's going on? [1] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/DCP/blob/21c8d3efecd0ceb5fc38dfe8e2c3aa8011ed58cd/COPYING https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/DCP/blob/21c8d3efe... [2] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/DCP/blob/496402fa92aa61acfbb871f6faa0988b16d1e2c1/LICENSE https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/DCP/blob/496402fa9...
- ganoushoreilly 9y agoIt could also be based upon patent rights, I know that employees get a 50% ownership of all patents, maybe that's part of it?
- ganoushoreilly 9y agoIt could also be based upon patent rights, I know that employees get a 50% ownership of all patents, maybe that's part of it?
- ginreaper 9y agoWell if they are forking or contributing to other software or any type of derivative work, they probably have to retain the original license by law
- wfunction 9y agoThat's not the case at least in the example I just gave though, right?