<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:07 AM, 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"><br>
In terms of the NOSA 2.0 license, the goal is to support the OSD despite not having copyright attached to most US government works within US jurisdiction.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Simply having the software be in the public domain and available in source-code form is sufficient to comply with the OSD, if you don't attempt to add contractual terms.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">would OSI (or anyone else) be willing to indemnify the US Government, and all downstream users, against any OSI-approved license being declared fully null and void solely because the license had copyright clauses in it that were declared invalid because the covered work didn't have copyright attached?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What would we be indemnifying the US Government for? A good many of us are U.S. citizens and the software is our property. The horse is already out of the barn in that copyright law doesn't protect it. NASA has seen fit to discard its trade-secret protection and any protection applicable to government secrets. Having discarded these things, there is no obligation transmissible from the first licensee to the second.</div><div> </div><div>The solution for public-domain material is to simply leave it in the public domain.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Bruce Perens K6BP - CEO, Legal Engineering<br>Standards committee chair, license review committee member, co-founder, Open Source Initiative<div>President, Open Research Institute; Board Member, Fashion Freedom Initiative.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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