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An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense.
https://www.code.mil
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OSI approval? #10

Closed ckaran closed 7 years ago

ckaran commented 7 years ago

It would a good idea to try to get OSI approval for any license you put forwards; this will make your code truly Open Source, which many outside projects require before they'll accept any code. ARL has been trying to do so with its own license, but is awaiting more guidance from the folks at code.gov before continuing the push.

tomberek commented 7 years ago

@ckaran : We are already pursuing OSI approval, thanks for the suggestion. We'll post here when we have more news.

marctjones commented 7 years ago

@ckaran Has ARL made the license they are proposing to OSI publicly available?

BrandonBouier commented 7 years ago

@ckaran we've been in conversations with the OSI, so they're aware of what we're doing.

ckaran commented 7 years ago

I apologize about getting on here late; I have been answering email traffic since I got in the office this morning regarding this issue, as well as others that have popped up due to the launch of code.mil.

@marctjones Yes, we put the license on the license-discuss mailing list at https://opensource.org/lists some time ago. If you are on that list, you should see my updated message on there shortly; the message is quite long, but I'm hoping you'll take the time to read it through.

@tomberek @BrandonBouier I'd like to join forces with you; we should have as few agreements as possible, simply to reduce license proliferation. If you aren't on the license-discuss mailing list, please get on there and take a look at the older discussions, as well as my recap that will be on there (I'd put the whole thing on here, but the issue would become a novella).