Re: License Committee report - regarding NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-18 Thread Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
I think the NASA Open Source Agreement is worthy of OSI's approval - - with revision, but it also raises issues worthy of discussion and, perhaps, adjustment to the OSD since the internationalization of intellectual property law will likely raise similar open source licensing issues for other

Re: License Committee report - regarding NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote: Regarding the issue concerning whether NASA may license software it cannot copyright in the U.S., the answer is yes, notwithstanding that significant harm to the conception of public domain for digital works is likely to follow. And if