On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <cem.f.karan....@mail.mil> wrote:
> Hi, my name is Cem Karan. I work for the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in > Adelphi, MD. I'm in charge of defining the Open Source policy for ARL. As a > part of this, we need a license that meets our legal and regulatory needs, but > is ideally fully interchangeable with everything licensed under the Apache 2 > license as defined at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt. We also > want our license to be fully accepted by OSI as a valid Open Source license. > > Unfortunately, we cannot directly use the Apache 2 license for all of our > code. Most of our researchers work for the US Federal Government and under US > copyright law any works they produce during the course of their duties do not > have copyright attached, so we have to rely on contract law as a protection > mechanism within the USA. What about this simpler approach: you could release your software under a choice of two licenses: - a public domain dedication (such as CC-0 or your own dedication) OR - the Apache-2.0 Could this alleviate the need to create a new license and still address your needs? -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne +1 650 799 0949 | pombreda...@nexb.com DejaCode : What's in your code?! at http://www.dejacode.com nexB Inc. at http://www.nexb.com _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
