Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-03-02 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:12 -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for hashcash. The source for the package includes a document, fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 180-1 (the definition for

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-03-02 Thread Elizabeth Lennon
The latest version is FIPS 180-2, and is available for download free of charge at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html. All FIPS are free of charge. Liz At 12:21 PM 3/2/2004 -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:12 -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As mentioned in

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-03-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:15:32PM -0500, Elizabeth Lennon wrote: The latest version is FIPS 180-2, and is available for download free of charge at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html. All FIPS are free of charge. Liz I suppose we don't have to summarize this, then?

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:58:29AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for hashcash. The source for the package includes a document, fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-26 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Arnoud Engelfriet said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:59:49PM +0100,: Because the Berne Convention appears to state so. Thanks. sniP Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention specifically states The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights ... shall be independent of the existence of

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
From: Mahesh T. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:33:50 +0530 Arnoud Engelfriet said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:59:49PM +0100,: Because the Berne Convention appears to state so

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Brian M. Carlson wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for hashcash. The source for the package includes a document, fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the Federal Information Processing Standards

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-25 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Giacomo A. Catenazzi said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:27:13AM +0100,: All works of the United States Government (of which FIPS 180-1 is one) are ineligible for copyright and are explicitly public domain. There are public domain only in the United States, IIRC Why do you say so?? AFAIK,

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-25 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:27:13AM +0100,: All works of the United States Government (of which FIPS 180-1 is one) are ineligible for copyright and are explicitly public domain. There are public domain only in the United States, IIRC

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Arnoud Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] And under article 5(1) an author, even the US Government, can claim foreign copyrights for works that qualify as literary or artistic under the Berne Convention. Has there been actual cases where the US government has claimed copyright in a non-US

license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-24 Thread Hubert Chan
As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for hashcash. The source for the package includes a document, fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 180-1 (the definition for SHA-1). I am unable to determine whether or not FIPS

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-24 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for hashcash. The source for the package includes a document, fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 180-1 (the definition