[Fedora-legal-list] And another license
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Jun 2 03:20:15 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:59 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> From my time there, my understanding was that code created and published
> by the U.S. government (or contractors under hire to do so) is public
> domain, and the government isn't allowed to deny the public the right to
> modify code it produces. This probably bears a closer look and some
> communication to see if someone just mistakenly slapped a license text
> on it to be open-sourcey.
Contractors are exempt from this. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government#Works_produced_by_contractors
The good news is that this license has been revised several times, and
the latest incarnation is Free and GPLv2/v3 compatible. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SCRIP
License: SCRIP
Thanks,
~spot
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