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

[Bruce Perens]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:35 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

If the language is limited to nations other than the United States, and
acknowledges that the work is acknowledged to be in the public domain
within the US, it would be acceptable. Right now, it purports to give US
citizens a permission we should not need.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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