[CAVO] Congressman Johnson bill for open source voting

[Brent Turner]

Hi Patrick--

I appreciate the work of OSI..  but with the obtainment of the OSI approved
license by OSET .. do you think that merely recommending an OSI approved
license- rather than GPL v3 - would be appropriate ?

My apprehension is that the government lacks the instinct to differentiate
between "open -washers " who have managed to technically comply with OSI
requisites for approval.. and the " real " open source community who would
be less likely to manipulate the government for financial gain .

I recognize you mentioned a background check of persons involved  i.e.
track record..   but I don't know if government has good ability there-

Best-  BT

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Patrick Masson <masson at opensource.org>
wrote:

> Brent, Nice Work!!!
>
> I tweeted this out, crediting you / CAVO (again, CAVO really needs a
> twitter account!).
>
> Per requests for revisions, I am sure you already have this, but we would
> recommend including a reference to OSI Approved Open Source Licenses in
> SEC. 284. item (d):
>
> FROM:
> “(d) Open source software defined.—The term ‘open source software’ means
> software the license of which is made available under an open source
> license.
> TO:
> “(d) Open source software defined.—The term ‘open source software’ means
> software distributed under an Open Source Initiative (OSI) Approved Open
> Source License.
>
> Thanks for including us.
> Patrick
>
>
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello CAVO members -
>>
>> Please suggest best revisions for this bill   - We are working with staff
>> now..
>>
>> https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5131/text
>>
>> Best-- BT
>>
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