<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:53 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">
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<div class="gmail_quote">that one clause is unenforceable affect the rest of the license? Different</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">lawyers have differing opinions, and as far as I know, it hasn't been settled</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">by the courts yet. This is the crux of why the government is looking to</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">create a new license that is not based on copyright. So that it isn't on the</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">hook for warranty and liability because it made a copyright claim that it</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">doesn't have, and so that downstream users are protected when they use</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">and incorporate GOSS into their own projects.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you mean protected from the US government itself?</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the risks faced by the US government that you are describing, I'd like to hear a US government lawyer walk us through how that would play out in a real world case. I am having some trouble seeing it. </div><div> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px"> </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px">Richard</span></font></div></div></div></div>