On 7/18/17 11:39 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm sending you that little e-mail because i'm confronted to a > specific license constraint while i have to declare my personal work > as i'm working for French government. > My manager told me that in France i can't declare my contribution as > being in the public domain as the french civil code doesn't permit an > author to completely loose all the copyright of a given content (not > for the public domain, which can be reach only after years). > What is possible is to use a very permissive license such as BSD-2 > clause license for my work. > > Do you think, as it's already done for some of the SSG files > copyrighted by Red-Hat, to set a BSD-2 clause copyright to the Debian/ > and Ubuntu/ dir ? Maybe reducing them to the lonely content i write > (and not the whole dir content, which contains files that have also be > written by others) would be better ?
SSG is Public Domain because of original co-sponsorship from the US Government (specifically, NSA). In the US, Government employees and contractors have no claims to intellectual property and must use public domain. Over time, Public Domain has accelerated contributions from other US Gov agencies and contractors (Lockheed, Northrup, etc) because they don't need special approvals to collaborate. I'm not sure how dual-licensing content (RHEL vs Deb) would work for downstream releases in RHEL(+derivatives) and Ubuntu. Can packages be dual licensed? p.s. while OpenSCAP tooling is LGPL [0], SSG is entirely Public Domain [1]. This has caused some issues in the past when proprietary companies took SSG and re-branded as their own content.... so there is definite interest in licensing to something that requires attribution. Martin: This has come up before, and you suggested there was a Public Domain variant that is more acceptable to the international community? Alternatively, could the Creative Commons licensing work? e.g. - https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain - https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 [0] https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/blob/maint-1.2/COPYING [1] https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/LICENSE _______________________________________________ scap-security-guide mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
