This is a non-issue.
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<div>The HTML is not copyrighted. &nbsp;It is just "printer's layout" to use Jim's phrase.</div>
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<div>The content is public domain, so the "container" is as well.</div>
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<div>Josh<br /><br />
<p>On Dec 11, 2010, <strong>Carlo Traverso</strong> &lt;traverso@posso.dm.unipi.it&gt; wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; "Jim" == Jim Adcock &lt;<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:jimad@msn.com" target="_blank">jimad@msn.com</a>&gt; writes:<br /><br /> Jim&gt; Seems like the problem could be solved if the HTML coder<br /> Jim&gt; assigned any residual rights to the HTML code to the US<br /> Jim&gt; Government for example.  Or if the HTML coder agreed<br /> Jim&gt; explicitly that it is a work for hire. Or, whatever.<br /><br />Surely not. This might be OK for US law, but surely would not be OK<br />for citizens of other countries, whose laws do not allow implicit<br />transfer of copyright and in which copyright cannot be lost. <br /><br />And I or many other people would strongly object to transfer any right<br />to any government, but especially to US government. <br /><br />The only solution might be a publication with a different licence, for<br />example one of the variants of Creative Commons, modified to introduce<br />some of PG peculiarities. <br /><br />Carlo<br />_______________________________________________<br />gutvol-d mailing list<br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org" target="_blank">gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org</a><br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d" target="_blank">http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d</a><br /></blockquote>
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