Need GUI pop-up to edit a (unicode ?) string

[Robert Kern]

On 2011-01-27 12:18 , Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 1/27/11 10:04 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2011-01-27, Stephen Hansen<me+list/python at ixokai.io>  wrote:
>>> On 1/25/11 3:02 PM, rantingrick wrote:
>>>> This is a major flaw in the design and i would be
>>>> happy to fix the flaw. However our "friend" Fredrick decided to
>>>> copyright the module to himself! What a jerk! Which is quite
>>>> disgusting considering that Tkinter, and TclTk are completely open
>>>> source!
>>>
>>> Uh. ... LOL.
>>>
>>> Copyright doesn't mean what you think it means.
>>>
>>> Tkinter is copyrighted. Python is copyrighted. Tcl/TK is copyrgithed.
>>>
>>> In fact: everything that is "open source" is copyrighted. By
>>> definition[* see footnote].
>>
>> One (domestic US) exception would be open-source software written by
>> an employee of the US federal government.  Works produced by the US
>> Government are not copyrighted under US domestic copyright law.  Such
>> works are copyrighted under international law (which is probably what
>> the Python maintainers care about).
>
> I've actually wondered a bit about that: but the only open source
> software that I'm aware of that's been government-adjacent has ended up
> being written/owned by some University or joint venture funded by a
> government agency -- it didn't fall into the public domain category of
> content created directly by the federal government.
>
> Are you aware of any code out there that is? Just curious. I'm not
> arguing that the exception doesn't exist or anything.

A lot of stuff from NIST is legitimately public domain. E.g.

   http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NFIS/

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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