Ownership of Information

[ianjkalin]

Regarding the section:

“DOC has relinquished control of the information and no longer has responsibility to protect the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of the information.”

Concern expressed from open source community:

You can release something on an “as is” basis. That’s fine. That’s a staple of any open source license (disclaiming warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose). But this particular sentence simply isn’t true, and especially isn’t true if I download the code via a quarterly zip file directly from the DoC website. Does such a disclaimer also exist on prose content from commerce.gov's web site?

[mikecharles]

Yeah I don't like that line, I think we still have a responsibility to protect those things.