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

[Richard Fontana]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 07:15:52PM +0000, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org<mailto:license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org>> on behalf of "Smith, McCoy" <mccoy.smith at intel.com<mailto:mccoy.smith at intel.com>>
> 
> > Interestingly enough, the code of the code.gov site is licensed under CC0 1.0:  https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-web/blob/master/LICENSE.md
> 
> But but but...that's not an OSI approved software license!
> 
> Why did that fail again?  The person who submitted didn't have standing or something?

The license steward withdrew the submission following negative
reaction on license-review to the "No ... patent rights held by
Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise
affected by this document" clause.

Richard