[License-review] Fwd: [Non-DoD Source] Resolution on NOSA 2.0

[John Cowan]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

IMO, the public gets that right if the software is lawfully released at
> all, regardless of whether a license was applied to it or what that license
> was. There is also the question of whether the government has any right to
> deliberately keep an unclassified useful work of a civil servant from the
> public, in particular under the technology transfer imperatives connected
> with NASA's funding.
>

Only for certain restrictive values of "the public", namely people in the
U.S.  The importance of NOSA and other government licenses is to the rest
of the worldwide public, which gets no rights without a license.

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