[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]]

[Nigel T]

> On Jun 20, 2018, at 5:32 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

1) NASA lawyers obviously disagree.  

2) Your fear that OSI approval of NOSA 2.0 will cause some sort of harm to open source, which I disagree with, has already occurred when it approved NOSA 1.3 with no ill effects since at least 2004.

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