> ________________________________________ > From: Thorsten Glaser [t...@mirbsd.de] > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:10 PM > To: Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) > Cc: Tom Bereknyei; license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Wrapping OSI licenses > (UNCLASSIFIED) > > Hello Karan, > > >However, it creates an unlevel playing field; the same code has > >different protections depending on where it is in the world. In the > >US, the license may be considered to be null and void because the > >copyright clauses can't be enforced, but in the rest of the world that > >might not be true. > > yes, that’s sad, but it’s the law. You can’t change that with licences. > Licences come from the existence of copyright protection in the first > place. > > It’s the same whenever scope of protection differs between countries. > Government works are one such thing; the other, much less rare, is > when the author is dead for, say, 50 but not 70 years, or 70 but not 100 > (which AFAIK is the protection period in Mexico). Public domain dedica‐ > tions are another. > > The best thing you can, AFAICT, do, is to say “if there’s copyright, > we claim it, and here’s a licence; if there’s not, we don’t claim any”. > > In fact, the thing you described which I quoted above is, combined with > a liberal OSS licence such as MIT or MirOS, the best thing that one can > hope for.
But isn't that what I'm aiming for? The meta-license (or meta-agreement, or whatever you want to call it), can have those terms in it. Then the user would say something like "Apache 2.0 with meta-license foobar", and get exactly the effect that we're talking about. The main issue I have with this approach is that I think some licenses don't allow you to change their terms (GPL? Too busy to check at the moment). That would have to be addressed in some manner as well. > Scope: I’m not discussing contractors, only PD government works, and I > deliberately limit my comment to copyright-related rights, not patents. > > bye, > //mirabilos _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
