Any copyrights held by the U.S. government are not enforceable
within the U.S.
That is not quite what the linked
material says. Quote:
Copyright protection under this title
is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United
States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights
transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
This says that anything authored by the U.S.
Government is not subject to copyright protecton, but that the U.S. Government
can receive and hold copyrights in works authored by others. Nowhere does it say
that those assigned copyrights cannot be enforced in the U.S.
I do not
know the authorship of the Ada language. If it was authored by the U.S.
Government, I'll grant your premise that it is unprotected. If, on the other
hand, it was authored by others and the copyright rights assigned to the
government, I'm not so sure.
As a side note, it would be nice if there
were some similar exclusion of rights to patents.
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