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by tomberek 3400 days ago
US Federal employees don't have copyright on their work. That statement in license.md refers to how it is clearer how to get to a permissive license via the contract-theory mechanism, GPLv3 is more reliant on copyright as the mechanism of providing its protection of software freedom. This is still a work-in-progress and needs public/community review.