Quoting Richard Fontana (font...@opensource.org): > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:55:54PM +0000, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote: > > If the USG is using CC0 for their new OSS initiative > > is this something that should be revisited? > > Yes, I think so. > > > Of course, you know I¹m of the opinion that is the OSI states a > > license is open source if it passes the OSD then we should either > > amend the OSD to require explicit patent grants moving forward or > > not block useful new licenses because of the lack of a patent grant. > > I'm inclined to agree with that. Note, though, the controversial issue > with CC0 was the explicit refusal to grant a patent license.
More specifically, CCO's explicit claim that no patent rights shall be conveyed though means of the CC0 grant. It wasn't just a 'refusal to grant', which would have been fairly ordinary among open source licences. For clarification, nobody at OSI claimed the problematic clause would block moving forward. Several members of license-review (including, I'm pretty sure, you) merely asked Karl Fogel to consult with Creative Commons to see if they might consider removing that clause, and substituting one granting use of patent claims the licensor holds that are necessary to use the software in the form it was licensed or dedicated. (There were also other comments, which I've not reviewed today.) Speaking for Creative Commons, Christopher Allan Webber appears to have correctly understood this feedback to be _not_ at all a rejection of the licence but rather suggestions for its revision, which he said (in his note on Feb. 24, 2012 withdrawing the application) CC would consider when the organisation has time. _He_ understood this, even though some people on this mailing list today appear not to have. -- Cheers, Grossman's Law: "In time of crisis, people do not rise to Rick Moen the occasion. They fall to the level of their training." r...@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#grossman McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss