[Fedora-legal-list] NIST "license"

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 04/15/2009 01:14 PM, Jerry James wrote:
> Here is the NIST license for another piece of their software, SCTK.
> It says that the software is public domain, but also includes an
> explicit disclaimer.  Is that still "Public Domain" for spec file
> purposes?

Yes. Works commissioned by employees of the US government are
automatically public domain, so this is fine.

> Incidentally, there's yet another of those broken "AS IS" clauses here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#Old_Style_with_legal_disclaimer_3

There is nothing wrong with disclaiming warranty in a FOSS license, in
fact, it is generally a pretty good idea.

~spot