<div dir="ltr">Hi Patrick--<div><br></div><div>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 ? </div><div><br></div><div>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 .</div><div><br></div><div>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-</div><div><br></div><div>Best- BT </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Patrick Masson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:masson@opensource.org" target="_blank">masson@opensource.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Brent, Nice Work!!!<br><br>I tweeted this out, crediting you / CAVO (again, CAVO really needs a twitter account!).<br><br>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):<br><br>FROM:<br><div style="margin-left:40px">“(d) Open source software defined.—The term ‘open source software’ means software <span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)">the license of which is made available under an open source license</span>.<br></div>TO:<br><div style="margin-left:40px">“(d) Open source software defined.—The term ‘open source software’ means
software <span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)">distributed under an Open Source Initiative (OSI) Approved Open Source License</span>.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for including us.<br></div><div>Patrick<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Brent Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello CAVO members -</div><div><br></div><div>Please suggest best revisions for this bill - We are working with staff now.. </div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5131/text" target="_blank">https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5131/text</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best-- BT </div></div>
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