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Comment Re:What's the license? (Score 1) 131

The site places no restrictions on language. One of the few requirements is that *all* projects must agree to either 1. a valid OSI license (..yes I know there are alot and they are all acceptable) or 2. a DoD community source license, which places restrictions on redistribution *outside* the DoD and other government organizations and agencies. It's up to the project creator to choose the appropriate license. By pushing for the adoption of this space and its resources, we're hoping to drive restrictive language *out* of future government contracts. We're hoping that contracts will be written so as to allow/encourage/force contractors to use this space. We're hoping to stop contractors from being able to charge the government 2 and 3 times for what is fundamentally the same piece of IP. In short, it's a government resource that is being built according to the tenets of open source development. I concede that it is not *true* open source as it is not wide open to the public a'la sourceforge.net.

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