[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

[Tzeng, Nigel H.]

On 8/18/16, 4:24 PM, "License-discuss on behalf of Richard Fontana"
<license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org on behalf of
fontana at opensource.org> wrote:


>On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 07:15:52PM +0000, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
>> From: License-discuss
>><license-discuss-bounces at opensource.org<mailto:license-discuss-bounces at op
>>ensource.org>> on behalf of "Smith, McCoy"
>><mccoy.smith at intel.com<mailto:mccoy.smith at intel.com>>
>> 
>> > Interestingly enough, the code of the code.gov site is licensed under
>>CC0 1.0:  
>>https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-web/blob/mast
>>er/LICENSE.md
>> 
>> But but but...that's not an OSI approved software license!
>> 
>> Why did that fail again?  The person who submitted didn't have standing
>>or something?
>
>The license steward withdrew the submission following negative
>reaction on license-review to the "No ... patent rights held by
>Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise
>affected by this document" clause.

Thank you Richard.  If the USG is using CC0 for their new OSS initiative
is this something that should be revisited?

Of course, you know I¹m of the opinion that is the OSI states a license is
open source if it passes the OSD then we should either amend the OSD to
require explicit patent grants moving forward or not block useful new
licenses because of the lack of a patent grant.