[License-discuss] Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

[Gervase Markham]

On 28/02/17 17:09, Smith, McCoy wrote:
> You should consider the fact that CC0 has an express disclaimer of
> patent licenses (in Section 4.a).  That may mean that it doesn't
> address one of the concerns that I think you had (i.e., that there
> might be USG patents covering the non-US copyrightable USG work
> distributed by the USG).
> 
> The CC licenses are also not on the OSI list (although there has been
> some discussion in the past of whether they should be added, IIRC).

Any objections to CC-0 also seemed to be patent-related; if the scheme
had a patent grant accompanying the CC-0 license, that might solve both
of these issues in one go and lead to something very, very good.

Gerv