They're in the public domain, since LC is a government agency and they
were done on government time.

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Robby Stephenson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to inquire about the licensing of the stylesheets on the MODS
> website, with regard to converting MARCXML to MODS. Specifically, that
> would be MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl and MARC21slimUtils.xsl.
>
> I'm the author of a software application called Tellico,
> http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/, which is licensed under the GNU General
> Public License, a fairly well-known free software license. I'd like to
> include the stylesheets with Tellico, but since they didn't include a
> copyright or license notice, I wasn't sure if that was allowed.
>
> Thanks,
> Robby Stephenson
>