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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A couple of quick remarks:<br>
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* Paragraph K (optional) requires the recipient to register
themselves as a condition to use the software, and this seems an
OSD incompatible requirement to me.<br>
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* Since this license strikes me as being sort of a counterpart of
the EUPL in Europe, and since it seems a weak copyleft, GPL
incompatible license too, have you considered an express GPL*
compatibility clause (which is not a requirement to be
OSD-compliant, just asking)?<br>
<br>
with best regards.<br>
<br>
Carlo Piana<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 07/06/2013 17:23, Geurts, Bryan A. (GSFC-1401) wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please accept for OSI review and approval
the attached NASA Open Source Agreement 2.0 (NOSA 2.0) as a
replacement for the existing NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NASA proposes that NOSA 2.0 be placed in
the license proliferation category of SPECIAL PURPOSE
LICENSES. It is designed to be used by US Government Agencies
releasing original software to the public.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Accordingly, once NOSA 2.0 has been
approved, NASA proposes that the current NOSA 1.3 be retired
(with full government retirement benefits, such as they are).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This new version of the NOSA retains
clauses unique to government licensing e.g. choice of law,
disclaimer of warranties and treatment of civil servant
contributors, and yet removes some of the more unsavory
requirements of the earlier version, such as the requirement
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please direct any questions about this
submittal to me as License Steward for the NOSA 2.0 and 1.3.
Thank you for your consideration.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Bryan A.
Geurts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NASA Goddard
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