Not true

Posted Mar 11, 2016 18:12 UTC (Fri) by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896)
In reply to: A policy statement on open-source software from the White House by pabs
Parent article: A policy statement on open-source software from the White House

Not true. It's true that software developed solely by US federal government employees as part of their official duties doesn't have copyright in the US (with a few exceptions for NIST and the US Postal Service). However, the vast majority of software developed using US federal government employees is developed by contractors, which has completely different rules.

Not true

Posted Mar 14, 2016 13:49 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link]

It depends on the sector but yes a lot of GOTS/Govt software is developed by contractors. Most federal contract boilerplate now contains copyright assignment to the government since they were bitten by that so many times in the past.