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An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense.
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You will need to change the law if I am correct #14

Closed tinjaw closed 7 years ago

tinjaw commented 7 years ago

I am a government employee. I write software. Everything I write is PUBLIC DOMAIN. I tried many many times to use a license (any license) and was told by the Army lawyers that by law it is PUBLIC DOMAIN and can not be put under any license. One example was during the APPS for ARMY contest. I was told that I had no choice. I could not license it in any way.

How is this proposal different? Is anybody reading this a lawyer? If so, can you provide us the documents that support what I have been told?

blakelapierre commented 7 years ago

Please post your legal counsels' discussions and findings in relation to this issue.

On Aug 31, 2017 9:16 AM, "Jordan Kasper" notifications@github.com wrote:

My apologies for not explaining this, but there has been no activity since Mar 15 and while it might be nice to have the US Constitution changed to alleviate any perceived contradictions, that is not the goal of this repository. We have legal counsel that has discussed the topic at length and we believe (via counsel) that we have a good path forward.

We thank everyone for the ongoing discussion and we invite any new issues for specific topics, concerns, or questions in new GitHub issues.

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jordangov commented 7 years ago

All of that information is posted by @shawoods in this thread above. This discussion is happening 100% in the open. The original topic was that we will need to change the laws in order to proceed, and that has not been our finding based on the citations and findings above. That is the reason for closing this specific GitHub issue.