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

Tue Feb 28 18:27:26 UTC 2017

ARL's policy (see 
https://github.com/USArmyResearchLab/ARL-Open-Source-Guidance-and-Instructions#433214A2C17C11E6952E003EE1B763F8) 
cover this.  External contributions would be covered by the OSI-approved 
license, so the patent/IP terms in that license will cover those patent 
rights.

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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> Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL
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> 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).
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> 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.
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