Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-07-28 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Awesome. You may wish to ask your tech transfer office if any of your army UARCs care about apache vs ECL v2. The patent grants are slightly different and ECL v2 is geared toward the odd needs of research universities. I'm guessing not because very few projects actually use ECL v2. On the other

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-07-28 Thread Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)
I am working with ARL Legal counsel on the license continuously. There are times when I'm slow in answering messages on this list because I have to run down to their office and get their opinions. I've been working with our Tech Transfer folks to make sure they are onboard with the proposed po

Re: [License-discuss] US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-07-28 Thread Maarten Zeinstra
Hi, Yes I am suggesting that if the country of origin of the work does not assign copyright to the work then no copyright is assigned world-wide. My reasoning is that there is no entity to assign that copyright to. An example in a different field might support my argument. In the Netherlands

Re: [License-discuss] U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-07-28 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Has this been reviewed by the ARL Office of Chief Counsel? I know the army has an intellectual property counsel as part of the JAG/USALSA out at Ft. Belvoir. You also have a tech transfer office at ARL that handles Patent License Agreements for ARL under 15 USC 3710a who would probably want to h

[License-discuss] U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) 0.4.0

2016-07-28 Thread Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)
I've incorporated some suggested changes into the ARL OSL, and bumped the version number to reflect this. The new text is both below and attached, and can be diffed with the text at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt. Change log: 1) Changed 'Apache' to 'ARL OSL' everywhere. Credit