Re: [License-discuss] Wrapping OSI licenses (UNCLASSIFIED)

2018-02-20 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Marc, I’m not necessarily advocating for a federal FOSS agreement but it strikes me that if one the agencies that has been forward thinking and generating GOSS code for public use as part of their strategy for nearly two decades under the NOSA license and likely has released one of the oldest G

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Wrapping OSI licenses (UNCLASSIFIED)

2018-02-20 Thread Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)
CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED I _really should_ refrain from starting an interesting discussion before going away for a long weekend... I'll combine my remarks to all the good comments I've seen into this post. Thorsten, you're right that the US Government's (USG) position is that USG works hav

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Wrapping OSI licenses (UNCLASSIFIED)

2018-02-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
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 b

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Wrapping OSI licenses (UNCLASSIFIED)

2018-02-20 Thread Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)
> > 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 l