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

[John Cowan]

Diane Peters scripsit:

> Given this, it remains unclear how a license to the worldwide public would
> be invalidated by a court? Please say more.

Because we don't know what law a foreign court would apply.  It might
apply the Berne Convention, and say "This work has a copyright term of
zero years in its home country, so it has a copyright term of zero years
here."  Or it might apply its local law as if the work were a local work.
Or it might do something else.  Conflicts law is still rather primitive
and unpredictable.

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