[FTF-Legal] FW: [Ossi] DISA to open source administrative software

[Carlo]

Dear Larry,

Well,

it seems a Good Thing (TM) that:

a) they have released it under free and open source software conditions;
b) they have chosen licenses already available instead of inventing a
new one (EU should learn from this).

I am not entirely sure I understand the double licensing decision, but
being them both free and open source  software licenses, I think I am fine.

I cannot comment very much in front of you about the actual choice of
the licence(s) because we already know we have different opinions about
what are to be preferred, ça va sans dire... What could disturb me is
that both licenses are GPL-incompatible, as per the FSF's assessment --
not sure I agree --, but this is not something you have not heard
before, I guess, and perhaps you don't agree with it.

Why not a... triple licensing? ;-)

With best regards,

Carlo

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Lawrence Rosen ha scritto:
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> DISA is an agency in the US Department of Defense. Please let John
> Weathersby (jmw at oss-institute.org <mailto:jmw at oss-institute.org>) or
> me know if you have any questions about this new open source project
> or its licensing strategy.
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:36 AM
> *To:* ossi at oss-institute.org
> *Subject:* [Ossi] DISA to open source administrative software
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> *DISA to open source administrative software
> <http://gcn.com/articles/2009/03/17/disa-open-source.aspx>*
> Other agencies free to use, modify human resource management software
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> The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to open source a
> suite of programs that it developed for administrative tasks. The
> agency has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
> with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) to help release the
> source code of the programs.
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> The set of 50 programs, collectively called the Corporate Management
> Information System (CMIS), handles duties such as human resource
> management, training, security, acquisition and related functions. All
> the programs were developed by internally by DISA, and are used by
> more that 16,000 users worldwide.
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> “Numerous other government agencies have asked if we'd allow them to
> adopt CMIS for their internal use," Jack Penkoske, DISA's director of
> manpower, security and personnel, said in a statement. "We believe
> this will be a win-win for all involved.”
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> By allowing third-party developers to view, modify, and reuse the
> software source code, DISA is hoping that others will improve the code
> when they modify it for their own purposes.
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> DISA will license the software under version 3 of the Open Software
> License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php> as well as
> version 3 of the Academic Free License
> <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-3.0.php>, according to John
> Weathersby, OSSI's executive director.
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> *John M. Weathersby, Jr.*
> Executive Director
> Open Source Software Institute
> http://oss-institute.org
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> A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
> an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
> *-- Winston Churchill*
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