[License-review] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Submission of the Upstream Compatibility License v1.0 (UCL-1.0) for approval

[Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)]

+1 on all of Nigel's comments below.

Right now, ARL's Open Source License is stalled internally while waiting for 
comments from higher ups; if NOSA 2.0 was Apache-compatible and OSI approved, 
we could drop the ARL OSL and go with NOSA 2.0 instead.  As it stands, we're 
using a mix of CC0 and contributor license agreements to have the effect we 
want, which isn't ideal.

What was wrong with NOSA 2.0 anyways?

Thanks,
Cem Karan

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> On 11/28/16, 6:43 PM, "License-review on behalf of Richard Fontana"
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> >Hi Nigel,
> >
> >My general sense of the license-review discussion of the UCL, and this
> >is confirmed for me by re-reading it now, is that opinion was mostly
> >negative, with concerns being expressed about the asymmetrical nature
> >of the license. This matches my personal view of the license. Thus I
> >would recommend against approval.
> >
> >Regarding NOSA 2.0, I'm afraid there has been no change in status. In
> >the short term I would not expect NOSA 2.0 to be approved without
> >substantial revisions, or else convincing justifications of
> >arguably-problematic provisions. However there has been no 'up or down
> >vote'.
> >
> >Richard
>
> Richard,
>
> I welcome any discussion on UCL, positive or negative.  I wished to get the 
> ball moving in any direction before investing more effort into
> UCL changes as a private individual.
>
> Regarding NOSA, I feel that while the Federal Source Code Policy may not 
> survive the current administration that it would behoove the
> OSI to do something to address the fact that a major Fed Gov open source 
> contributor and license steward has asked to update their
> license.  A special purpose license meant to facilitate the open sourcing of 
> US Government developed software that takes into account the
> needs of a federal agency.  We are highly dependent on NOSA licensed code 
> for our flight software and spacecraft testbeds which are
> based on Goddard's Core Flight Executive and I have been a contributor in 
> the past on NASA WorldWind, another NOSA success story.
>
> I think that 3.5 years (first submitted Jun 7, 2013) is long past the time 
> period where an up or down vote should be taken.
>
> It may also be useful to get the ball rolling on CC0 approval in case the 
> Federal Source Code Policy survives and a large portion of the code
> released on code.gov is released under a non-OSI approved FOSS license.
> If the policy is set where OSI approval is not required to be considered 
> Open Source by the Federal Government that would probably be
> sub-optimal for the OSI.  I guess this is a topic more suited for 
> license-discuss.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel
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