[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Hollaar) writes:
In the 108th Congress, there was an effort (H.R. 2613) to extend that
to works produced under government contracts. Copyright protection
under this title is not available for any work produced pursuant to
scientific research substantially funded by the
On 2007-06-10, Lee Hollaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the thing I was thinking about if the House bill had passed was that
any contribution by a government contractor (like a university research
project) would be in the public domain. How might that affect the GPL,
and if it did, would it
Arnoud writes:
Why would it affect the GPL?
It would not have affected the GPL. What it would have done is caused some
works that were released under the GPL to be effectively placed in the
public domain. It also would have resulted in a bunch of stuff that ended
up closed source being
