Re: The COBOL front end, version 3, now in 14 easy pieces (+NIST)

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 21, 2025, at 1:59 PM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> 
> * James K. Lowden:
> 
>> As I mentioned in other posts, IMO (IANAL) the copyright in
>> unimportant and probably unenforceable.  The National Computing
>> Centre no longer exists, and the document was also published by NIST
>> which, as part of the US government, does not copyright its
>> publications.
> 
> In the United States.  It is generally assumed that the
> U.S. government can claim copyright on its works abroad.

Really?  That's puzzling.  It's my understanding that works of the United 
States are, by law, in the public domain.

        paul