[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Resources to discourage governments from bespoke licenses?

[Richard Fontana]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 5:25 PM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
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> >>Hmmm... OK, I remember that a NOSA 3.0 was being drafted at one time, and I know it got put up on the list.  Does anyone want me to go poke at the NASA lawyers to see if they'll push on NOSA 3.0 >>again?  Alternatively, does anyone want to push on Congress to do something about copyright law so that the US Government can use the standard, already approved licenses?
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> Are you sure about that?  I've scanned the archives and don't see anything about a NOSA 3.0.  Just about 2.0. And 2.0 was never approved; the only approved version is 1.3.  The last discussion on NOSA 2.0 was around June of 2018.

My recollection is that the NASA lawyer mentioned working on a NOSA
3.0 but this version was never submitted for OSI approval and I'm not
aware of it being used publicly. I think the various version numbers
of NOSA are getting confused in this and other recent threads.

Richard