<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cem.f.karan.civ@mail.mil" target="_blank">cem.f.karan.civ@mail.mil</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br></span>[CC0] mimics the copyright-based behavior as far as is possible without invoking copyright.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. NASA does not have to refrain from invoking copyright in their own license. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span>But CC0 doesn't handle patent issues, which we need to handle separately.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. NASA can still make patent grants in their own license.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>The point here is that NASA doesn't have to contractually restrict the public domain software where it is public domain.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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