[License-review] [Non-DoD Source] Re: 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 1:18 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <
cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>
> > A unilateral declination regarding public-domain software should work as
> well as one regarding copyrighted material.
>

Almost all of them. Every Open Source work has portions that can not be
copyrighted due to its functional nature or not being an original work of
authorship. I am talking about the standard "no warranty" statement that we
see in almost every license.

>
> Are there any OSI-approved licenses that give such a declination?  That
> also handle patent and other IP issues?


Yes, quite a few.


>   And that will cover contributions from the outside which have copyright
> attached?
>

Those too.

If there are, please point me at them!


 MPL 2.0 and GPL3 have been subject to discussion, they are good examples.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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