On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:15:14 +0000 Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote: > Good morning, my name is Cem Karan. Hello! [...] > I have been in discussion with the Open Source Initiative (OSI, > https://opensource.org/) on their license-discuss mailing list to develop a > method that ARL can use to safely and legally release ARL-developed code as > Open Source. Marc Jones suggested on that list that I contact Debian to see > what Debian thoughts are. Thanks for doing so. What follows are my own personal opinions. Please note that I am *not* an official member of the Debian Project (I am just an external contributor) and I cannot speak on behalf of the Project. [...] > we'd like to use a scheme that was > suggested on code.mil: > > 1) All code that does not have copyright attached is released under the > Creative Commons Zero (CC0, > https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This looks fine to me, with the only possible caveat that CC0 explicitly refuses to waive patent rights: https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero > > 2) ARL-controlled projects choose an OSI-approved license to accept > contributions under (e.g. Apache 2.0). If a contribution has copyright > attached, then the contributors must license the contribution under the > OSI-approved license to the ARL. Contributions that have no copyright > attached must be licensed to the ARL under CC0. OK. > > 3) The works are combined and distributed with a note similar to the > following: "The portions of this work that do not have copyright attached are > distributed under the CC0 license. The portions of this work that have > copyright attached are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license." Looks clear enough to me. > > Will this scheme meet Debian's idea of Open Source software? Personally, I think this scheme would be suitable to comply with the DFSG. Obviously, I don't know what other debian-legal regulars think, nor whether the Debian FTP Masters will consider works released according to this scheme as acceptable for the Debian main archive... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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