[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 2:21 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <
cem.f.karan.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

>
> [CC0] mimics the copyright-based behavior as far as is possible without
> invoking copyright.
>

Yes. NASA does not have to refrain from invoking copyright in their own
license.

>
> But CC0 doesn't handle patent issues, which we need to handle separately.


Yes. NASA can still make patent grants in their own license.

The point here is that NASA doesn't have to contractually restrict the
public domain software where it is public domain.
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