Re: Software as a public service

Frank Hecker wrote:
> For contractor-developed non-COTS software 
> (i.e., developed specifically for US government use and not "commercial 
> off the shelf") typically the US government would have a license for 
> internal use and perhaps the right to distribute software to 
> non-government users for "government purposes", but this license would 
> not necessarily permit distribution outside the government for other 
> purposes.

I should have noted that this is for contractor-developed software for 
which the contractor retains copyright. However even for software for 
which the copyright is assigned to a US government agency (or for that 
matter, government-developed software with no copyright) the agency is 
not necessarily obligated to release it to the general public.

Frank

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