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NASA Prepares to Open Source Code

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the reaping-the-rewards dept.

comforteagle writes "According to this story at O'Reilly, NASA is looking for approval for their own open source license. The NASA submitter (lawyer of course) states that none of the current licenses meet their needs, but more interesting is that NASA needs a license at all. It makes one wonder what we, and other space agencies, might see coming out off NASA. It's also nice to see code that taxpayers paid for anyway being released for their use too. There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software. X Prize participants maybe?"

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  1. Re:Absolutely by iminplaya · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I picture a big cave with millions of moths flying around and of course lots of cobwebs. Maybe hearing the "addams family" theme song?

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  2. Re:Absolutely by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Whoever modded this as funny: I don't think that is funny. It really would be a good idea :P

  3. Open Source Rocket by Comatose51 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We should just build an open source rocket for fun and profit. Imagine an international team of researchers and just ordinary people collaborating on a project without any corporate or government intervention. This is stretching it but I think open source collaborative work could be applied to non-computer projects.

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  4. Re:Good imaging software by dcam · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm looking forward to the "fake moonlanding" plugin.

    (yes that was a joke)

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