[License-review] For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement 2.0

[Carlo Piana]

A couple of quick remarks:

* Paragraph K (optional) requires the recipient to register themselves
as a condition to use the software, and this seems an OSD incompatible
requirement to me.

* Since this license strikes me as being sort of a counterpart of the
EUPL in Europe, and since it seems a weak copyleft, GPL incompatible
license too, have you considered an express GPL* compatibility clause
(which is not a requirement to be OSD-compliant, just asking)?

with best regards.

Carlo Piana



On 07/06/2013 17:23, Geurts, Bryan A. (GSFC-1401) wrote:
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> Please accept for OSI review and approval the attached NASA Open
> Source Agreement 2.0 (NOSA 2.0) as a replacement for the existing NASA
> Open Source Agreement 1.3.
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> NASA proposes that NOSA 2.0 be placed in the license proliferation
> category of SPECIAL PURPOSE LICENSES.  It is designed to be used by US
> Government Agencies releasing original software to the public.
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> Accordingly, once NOSA 2.0 has been approved, NASA proposes that the
> current NOSA 1.3 be retired (with full government retirement benefits,
> such as they are).
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> This new version of the NOSA retains clauses unique to government
> licensing e.g. choice of law, disclaimer of warranties and treatment
> of civil servant contributors, and yet removes some of the more
> unsavory requirements of the earlier version, such as the requirement
> of contributors to warrant that they are the original authors of their
> contribution.
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> Please direct any questions about this submittal to me as License
> Steward for the NOSA 2.0 and 1.3.  Thank you for your consideration.
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> *Bryan A. Geurts*
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