I'm now considering a copyleft-style license that excludes uses in military, automotive, aerospace, astronautics, and energy applications, and research projects funded by US government funds that target those domains. 2/4
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We had seven projects in DARPA POSH and one in IDEA. DARPA did not fund a single one of them. I'm afraid it's because they think we will self exploit ourselves like always and develop that stuff "for free" anyways. 1/4
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Maybe with a clause that makes it proper (BSD-style) open source after 8 years. Afaict this is the only course of action that would make sense given the incentives that seem to be at work here. 3/4
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We would of course offer reasonably priced licenses for this kinds of applications. If organisation like DARPA are not funding our work directly, then we have to try to cover our costs by charging the projects that get funded (or not do the projects at all). 4/4 cc
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Clifford, it well may be that the FLOSS party inside DARPA just lost. In our proposals we explained our view that what they call "viral" license is a better choice for both DoD and taxpayers who fund it.
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Our proposed projects would all have been permissively licensed, i.e. licensed exactly the way they asked. (And I am usually not a fan of copyleft. I just need a viral license if I want to implement the kind of restrictions that seem reasonable in this situation.)
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I was very surprised to hear that you weren't funded. Our proposal wasn't selected either :(
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We also got toasted at UCSC with the DARPA IDEA/POSH, the sad thing is that some people that got it did not even know the difference between idea and posh.
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Where did you get the info about who got funded?
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EDA funding, and research funding in general, has often been more about who you know that what you know, unfortunately.
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