FWIW, I have authored what I call a "plug-in" license intended to allow an add-in patent license to licenses like CC0 that lack one (or disclaim them). It's a bit of a WIP, and isn't OSI approved (nor would it likely ever be as it's not an independent license). I presented it to the CC folks at their annual gathering in Seoul in late 2015: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HBOY8b2doESnl2d0M1clJ5bG8/view as well as other venues (FSF-E). The proposal was mainly directed to the licensing of "open hardware" but it is adaptable so that it could provide a supplement patent grant for software, when such software does not come with, or disclaims, a patent license. That may or may not be useful here, as you're getting somewhat complex in your licensing regime (CC0+Plug-In+OSI approved licensing).
-----Original Message----- From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org] On Behalf Of Gervase Markham Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 9:17 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1 On 28/02/17 17:09, Smith, McCoy wrote: > You should consider the fact that CC0 has an express disclaimer of > patent licenses (in Section 4.a). That may mean that it doesn't > address one of the concerns that I think you had (i.e., that there > might be USG patents covering the non-US copyrightable USG work > distributed by the USG). > > The CC licenses are also not on the OSI list (although there has been > some discussion in the past of whether they should be added, IIRC). Any objections to CC-0 also seemed to be patent-related; if the scheme had a patent grant accompanying the CC-0 license, that might solve both of these issues in one go and lead to something very, very good. Gerv _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
