<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:03 AM Christopher Sean Morrison <<a href="mailto:brlcad@mac.com">brlcad@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
> On Mar 8, 2017, at 9:32 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <<a href="mailto:cem.f.karan.civ@mail.mil" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">cem.f.karan.civ@mail.mil</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> You might want to re-read what they posted; the license applies only to those<br class="gmail_msg">
> portions of the code that have copyright attached, otherwise it's public<br class="gmail_msg">
> domain. The trick is that while US Government (USG) works are ineligible for<br class="gmail_msg">
> copyright within the US, they may be eligible for copyright outside the US,<br class="gmail_msg">
> and in those areas the USG works are licensed under the OSI-approved license.<br class="gmail_msg">
> I'm not sure what it would mean for code that was moved across jurisdictions,<br class="gmail_msg">
> but I do understand and appreciate the intent of their approach.<br class="gmail_msg">
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They’ve slapped a copyright-based license file on the collective work with an INTENT file clarifying that it only applies to code that has copyright attached. I read what they wrote very carefully. We’re saying exactly the same thing.<br class="gmail_msg">
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It’s an interesting approach that is not new, just untested and a point of dispute in the past as to what might happen.<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For what little it is worth, having just read <a href="http://intent.md">intent.md</a>, I think it's an eminently reasonable policy. It gives some baseline certainty for non-.gov contributors, non-US entities, and US entities that are satisfied with a baseline set of FOSS rights. For those who for some reason need the additional flexibility of US-only PD, they can do the research to figure out what is available in that way. <br><br></div><div>Luis<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><a href="http://lu.is" target="_blank">Luis Villa: Open Law and Strategy</a><br></i></div><i>+1-415-938-4552</i></div></div></div></div>