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The Delaware General Corporation Law, in Markdown and JSON formats
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Add statement on licensing of software code and legal code (government work) #8

Open anseljh opened 9 years ago

kemitchell commented 9 years ago

This crossed my mind as well, though I'm not familiar with any purpose-built "standard" language for addressing the issue. I imagine it might have to be state-specific. Some states do affirmatively assert copyright in their statutes, but I'm not aware of any Delaware statute or history to that effect.

The Delaware Code site has the following notices:

NOTICE: The Delaware Code appearing on this site is prepared by the Delaware Code Revisors and the editorial staff of LexisNexis in cooperation with the Division of Research of Legislative Council of the General Assembly with the assistance of the Government Information Center, and is considered an official version of the State of Delaware statutory code. This version includes all acts effective as of January 1, 2015, up to and including 79 Del. Laws, c. 443.

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The Florida State Decoded site has this in its footer:

The Florida Statutes are owned by the citizens of Florida and, consequently, it is not governed by copyright—so do whatever you want with it! The information on this website does not constitute legal advice—no one here is acting as your attorney, and nothing that you read here is a substitute for a competent attorney. There is no guarantee that this information is accurate or up-to-date.

There isn't any State Decoded for Delaware.