Will we ever know what portions are public domain?

On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Adam P Fuchs wrote:

> We just faxed in a signed NSA CCLA and Software Grant for Accumulo.
> 
> As Billie mentioned earlier, the Software Grant is unmodified, with a caveat 
> in the Exhibit A (List of software and other intellectual property covered by 
> this agreement), to state that some portions of Accumulo are in the public 
> domain, and that the copyright license is granted only for those materials 
> for which there is copyright.
> 
> The CCLA is slightly modified. We broadened the definition of "You" (or 
> "Your") in section one to include "the owner of a contribution not subject to 
> copyright". We also modified the Grant of Copyright License in section two to 
> include the clause "to the extent that copyright exists in the 
> Contribution(s)". The full text of the modified CCLA is attached. Should we 
> pose this as a question to the LEGAL jira now to see if ASF will accept these 
> changes?
> 
> Adam
> <modified_CCLA.txt>

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