All, I want to keep this alive as I haven't seen a conclusion yet. Earlier I
asked if OSI would accept the US Government (USG) putting its non-copyrighted
works out under CC0 as Open Source **provided** that the USG accepts and
redistributes copyrighted contributions under an OSI-approved
Cem,
The USG does not need OSI’s approval to release code as open source under CC0.
It has done so already on code.gov. This includes the OPM, NASA, GSA, DOT,
DOL, DOC and others. CC0 is compliant with the Federal Source Code Policy for
open source release.
It is unlikely that you can push
I agree that the Government can release it as open source, but as I understand
it, not as Open Source. The difference is whether or not the code will be
accepted into various journals (Journal of Open Source Software is one). It
also affects whether or not various distributions will accept
Cool! Would Fedora/Red Hat consider it to be Open Source?
Thanks,
Cem Karan
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Can't speak for Debian, but Fedora will happily take software licensed as
you describe.
On Mar 16, 2017 3:09 PM, "Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)" <
cem.f.karan@mail.mil> wrote:
> I agree that the Government can release it as open source, but as I
> understand it, not as Open Source.
I also can't speak for Debian. But it is my understanding that Debian does
not rely on OSI for determining if a license is free. They use their own
Debian Free Software Guidelines. (Although they are very similar.) Someone
at Debian maintains a FAQ on the DFSG [1]
Debian also has a Licensing page
I'd think the only ones who get to apply the "Open Source" label to
licenses would be the OSI. Fedora's opinion is that CC-0 meets the OSD.
On Mar 16, 2017 4:31 PM, "Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)" <
cem.f.karan@mail.mil> wrote:
> Cool! Would Fedora/Red Hat consider it to be Open
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
I'd think the only ones who get to apply the "Open Source" label to
> licenses would be the OSI. Fedora's opinion is that CC-0 meets the OSD.
>
"Open source", whether upper or lower case, is not a protected mark of the
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