[License-review] NOSA 2.0 and Government licensing [was: moving to an issue tracker [was Re: Some notes for license submitters]]

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

Simply having the software be in the public domain and available in
> source-code form is sufficient to comply with the OSD, if you don't attempt
> to add contractual terms.
>

Alas, things are not so simple.  U.S. government-created software (or other
copyrightable materials) is in the public domain in the U.S. only.  In all
other jurisdictions, it is fully protected by U.S. and foreign copyright.
So a license is required to cover the remaining 98% of the planet, and this
license has to be a single integrated instrument, not the disjunction of
two potentially severable licenses.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
A rabbi whose congregation doesn't want to drive him out of town isn't
a rabbi, and a rabbi who lets them do it isn't a man.    --Jewish saying
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