emc copyright??

Does anyone know what they mean when they say that emc
is written by the government and so is not subject to copywrite? Does that mean it is automatically protected?
I have converted the emc G-Code translator to windows format ( not a lot of changes required ) and would like to use it in mastercontrol real time version. Is that permitted?

just a thought,
Art


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