[Fedora-legal-list] Re: License for NIST datasets
On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 12:28 -0500, Bryan Sutula wrote:
On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 17:16 +0000, Davide Cavalca wrote:
> NIST Standard Reference Data (SRD);
> ©Copyright [©YEAR] by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of
> the
> United States of America. All rights reserved.
> ---
>
> To my untrained eye, this looks like a fairly standard copyright
> attribution thing and should be ok to redistribute and package in
> Fedora, but I'd like an official blessing as I don't see this license
> listed on
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main
>
The phrase "all rights reserved" indicates that no permission has been
granted for anyone to make copies. On the surface, we should not
redistribute this content.
I am surprised, though, that publicly-funded work would be restricted.
Perhaps one of our attorneys could comment?
So I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that "All
rights reserved" is just a copyright affirmation phrase, it doesn't
actually restrict/impact redistribution in itself. If you look at
https://github.com/search?q=%22All+rights+reserved%22 it's all over the
place, even in projects under permissive licenses.
Cheers
Davide