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

Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil
Wed Mar 1 17:38:34 UTC 2017


That is actually a part of ARL's policy.  If you haven't looked at the policy yet, go to https://github.com/USArmyResearchLab/ARL-Open-Source-Guidance-and-Instructions and take a look.

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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> OSI approval is not explicitly required under DOSA. It just says open source license.
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> If DOSA explicitly defines the licensing authority I would prefer it be stated as any DOD approved open source license.
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> That would insure that any projects we develop for sponsors and released as open source will be under a license that has been reviewed
> and accepted by DOD legal from both from a security as well as compliance standpoint.
> From: Jim Wright <jwright at commsoft.com < Caution-mailto:jwright at commsoft.com > >
> Date: Wednesday, Mar 01, 2017, 11:53 AM
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> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1
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> Certainly the approach code.mil spells out to contributions seems ok without having to address the license issue at all, but these questions
> seem orthogonal to me.  Cem seems to be trying to ensure that all open source projects operating using this process are under an OSI
> approved license, which appears to require them to pick one (or several) FOSS licenses to actually apply.  CC0 doesn’t work for that
> purpose because it’s not OSI approved anyway and also doesn’t have a patent license, but observing this doesn’t solve Cem’s problem of
> how to license this stuff in a way that *is* OSI approved, which I think is what he’s getting at.  (Feel free to correct me…)
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> > On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
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> > Well the complication is mainly a response to Cem wanting the OSI to
> > bless his proposed approach. I think however that code.mil has already
> > rejected this sort of idea.
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> > I think the code.mil approach is much more elegant without introducing
> > the use of CC0.
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