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

[Bruce Perens]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Nigel T <nigel.2048 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You will have to explain how public domain code released under a specific
> agreement impacts other public domain code that isn't under the agreement.
>

OSI sets precedent by accepting the text, which can be used in court cases
to stop Open Source developers from fighting assertions of contractual
restrictions on public domain software where such would hurt
interoperability with proprietary software.

If you look at my own court case, you can see where statements of Richard
Stallman, Bradley Kuhn, and I are used in the plaintiff's exhibits.

Public domain code doesn't have to be released to anyone and an agreement
> that allows more release of public domain code as open source is helpful.
>

Yes, but the terms are overall harmful to Open Source in a way that is not
mitigated by the release of the software.


> That is an odd objection.  NOSA 1.3 code has been incorporated into other
> open source projects in the past and parts of the community have maintained
> NOSA code on their own without any license proliferation issues.
>

Are you really sure? One would expect that there is at least some license
combination in such projects.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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