[License-review] use restrictions and patent royalties

[Richard Fontana]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:34:39PM -0400, Nigel T wrote:
> Simon,
> 
> The results of the NOSA vote were unclear as reported to this list.  My recollection is that it was reported that the board declined to vote on it.  It has since been (unofficially) reported as rejected and no longer under consideration.

As noted at:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2017-November/003309.html

  The OSI board has adopted the following resolution on the NASA Open Source
  Agreement 2.0:

  "Resolved, That, in view of the length, complexity, and ambiguities
  in the submitted drafts of the NASA Open Source Agreement version
  2.0, it is the opinion of the OSI that the conformance of NOSA 2.0
  to the OSD cannot be assured. OSI thus can neither approve nor
  reject the license, and NASA is invited to submit a new draft of
  NOSA for consideration by the OSI."

It is correct that the board did not vote on NOSA 2.0 itself.

It is not correct that NOSA 2.0 was "rejected". Rather, as stated in
the resolution, NASA can submit a new draft (or, perhaps, focus on
NOSA 3.0). 

Richard