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David Monniaux wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
For those who may be unconvinced: the ADA Reference Manual shows a Copyright (c) Department of Defense.
Reason: the manual was written by a contractor, which assigned copyright to DoD.
(Note, however, that the US seems to let people use its copyrighted works royalty-free, effectively under a "free license".)
Does that imply {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}?
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