Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

Typefaces are not subject to copyright protection in the US, while they are in several jurisdictions, including Ireland. Is a typeface created in the United States protected by copyright law in Ireland when it's copied in Dublin? I'm not sure what purpose 5(2) would accomplish if not apply domesti

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

The Berne Convention also says in Article 7(8) that "unless the legislation of that country otherwise provides, the term [of protection] shall not exceed the term fixed in the country of origin of the work." https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=283698#P127_22000 The country of origin i

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

Pam, I'm not sure that it would work this way. Per Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention: (2) The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall not be subject to any formality; such enjoyment and such exercise *shall be independent of the existence of protection in the country of origin of the

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

Wouldn't the government's copyright interest outside of the US be limited by the Rule of the Shorter Term under the Berne Convention? And so where the term in the US is "zero," wouldn't it be zero in those countries that observe the Rule of the Shorter Term? Pam Pamela S. Chestek Chestek Legal PO

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

FSF and (I believe) OSI both worked with the US DOD / DDS to come up with one solution to these issues, which is published at , further described at : > Licensing Intent > The intent is that this software and documentation ("Project") s

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

Heh, and I decided to leave the lists right before the discussion became interesting. My final comment on the general subject is simple…I’ve seen too many projects not make it through the wickets to becoming open source, one of my own being one of them, that the issue is not a theoretical logic

Re: [License-discuss] Discussion on new revision of Master-Console's Open Source Definitive License(MCopdl)

Thank you so much for checking in the revised license. However, it still had mistakes as I thought. -(In the above quote, "implies to" is also not valid English, and I'm not completely sure whether you meant "refers to", or "implies", with no preposition.) implies but referring to as a whole. On

Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:33 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss wrote: > > Except it’s not really a work-around, it’s the widespread standard > practice that has persisted for longer than OSS has existed. Contracts / > Agreements are the manner in which all Gov't creative works ar

Re: [License-discuss] Discussion on new revision of Master-Console's Open Source Definitive License(MCopdl)

On 29/05/2019 13:12, Wayne A Rangel wrote: "Source" implies to the core files, the code used, documents and resources used in the product. This definition also applies to 'source code'. I think you need this document reviewing by a native English speaker. However the first issue I noted

[License-discuss] Discussion on new revision of Master-Console's Open Source Definitive License(MCopdl)

Hello, recently I had sent emails to the license-review list for reviewing the license called Master-Console's Open-Source Definitive License(MCopdl) but it lacked some legal terms, had grammatical errors, some issues that violated the free and open source terms, figured out thanks to the members a