Code.Gov – Share and reuse open source code from the Federal Government

  • previous and ongoing discussion

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869601

  • I see a bunch of licenses there... GPL, Apache, &c. I suppose this has been addressed elsewhere, but isn't everything produced by the federal government in the public domain? Doesn't releasing it under a free software license imply an assertion of copyright?