On 7/21/17 11:02 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On 2017-07-19 18:08, Shawn Wells wrote: >> >> 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? > > For Debian & derivatives it can, while the debian/copyright file is > properly written. > >> >> 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 > > After taking a look to CC0, will have the same problem (i.e. can't > release the copyright): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_France > That's why i proposed BSD-1-clause, which seems the simpliest (and the > less restrictive) licencing for these files.
Personally I've no idea how to handle this, so I asked members of Red Hat's legal team for help. Also sent a note requesting feedback from other Red Hat members who work on international FOSS projects on how they've handled this. Will report back.
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