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

[Bruce Perens]

Hi Bryan,

I reviewed the NASA Open Source Agreement about 20 days ago. I have
continued to develop my understanding of the license, including from
discussion with Nigel and John Cowan. I could do a third pass of review
based on my improved understanding, but the result would still be that I
concur with the OSI board's decision to decline to accept the license as
written. I would encourage you to work on 3.0 and to do peer review with
other attorneys before submitting it, but I'm eager to see 3.0 and hope
that you can arrive at a license that works for everyone.

    Thanks

    Bruce Perens

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

> > Which makes it nugatory, but not therefore exceptionable, unless you can
> show why it is a problem.
>
> It's nugatory if it's strictly a copyright license. Not if it's a
> contract. Licensees in the US would be joining in a contractual agreement
> regarding public-domain material, restricting rights they would otherwise
> have by default.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:07 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> <http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org>
>>
>>
>> Which makes it nugatory, but not therefore exceptionable, unless you can
>> show why it is a problem.
>>
>> --
>> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
>> Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy.  Dennett and Bennett are
>> well-known.
>> Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never cites
>> Dennett.
>> There is also one Dummett.  By their works shall ye know them.  However,
>> just as
>> no trinities have fourth persons (Zeppo Marx notwithstanding), Bummett is
>> hardly
>> known by his works.  Indeed, Bummett does not exist.  It is part of the
>> function
>> of this and other e-mail messages, therefore, to do what they can to
>> create him.
>>
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