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If the US Army developed it with our tax dollars, isn't it in the public domain?
by briansmith 18y ago
If the US Army developed it with our tax dollars, isn't it in the public domain?
- sachinag 18y agoThey can claim national security if they wanted to. If you really want to work on an awesome government program that was released to the public domain, OpenVISTA could use your help: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvista There's not higher calling than helping people live healthier and saving some lives.
- niels_olson 18y agoyes, you could get it under the Freedom of Information Act, which is how the VistA developers got their code out from under the VA. Think of the GPL as a "dual license" scenario. Technically, "public domain" in this context, I believe, was intended to refer to American citizens. The internet and the modern software licenses obviously impose a broader philosophical outlook.