[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

[Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)]

Comments inline below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org] On 
> Behalf Of Engel Nyst
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 4:56 PM
> To: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [License-discuss] U.S. Army Research 
> Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL
> (US) <cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> >       "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction,
> >       and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this 
> > document.
>
> You may want to update the sections count, they're 10 now.

Fixed, thanks for the catch!

> >    4. Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the
> >       Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without
> >       modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that You
> >       meet the following conditions:
>
> I'd suggest to add in clause 4, or in its obligations a)-d), an "if 
> copyright exists" or something similar. If copyright doesn't exist in the 
> Work,
> can't put enforceable conditions on redistributions.

What wording would you suggest?

> Just wondering: you said that Apache License 2.0 doesn't have a severability 
> clause, and it would have helped your wishes. However you
> didn't add one. Why not?

I was trying to keep the license as close to the Apache 2.0 license as I 
could.  The more I add, the more likely it is that our license will be 
incompatible with the Apache 2.0 license, and it is VERY important to us to be 
fully interchangeable with everyone else.  We want our code to be used; it's 
why I'm going through the effort of getting the license OSI and Apache 
approved.  Anything that jeopardizes that has to be considered very, very 
carefully.

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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