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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: boosting libg++ (was Re: g++ vs. cfront 2.0 in the Real World)
Summary: oops is puplic domain
Message-ID: <1064@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 15:56:30 GMT
References: <318@gt-eedsp.gatech.edu> <6590198@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: SoftCom, Inc. San Francisco
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In article <6590198@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
> Similarly, OOPS was developed at NIH with
> all our tax dollars, and legally should not be restricted.

At the beginning of every file in oops (at least all the ones I looked at)
there is the following statement:

        THIS SOFTWARE FITS THE DESCRIPTION IN THE U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT OF A
        "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WORK".  IT WAS WRITTEN AS A PART OF THE
        AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL DUTIES AS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.  THIS MEANS IT
        CANNOT BE COPYRIGHTED.  THIS SOFTWARE IS FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE
        PUBLIC FOR USE WITHOUT A COPYRIGHT NOTICE, AND THERE ARE NO
        RESTRICTIONS ON ITS USE, NOW OR SUBSEQUENTLY.

I think that counts as ``not restricted.''

--marc
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