NASA Prepares to Open Source Code

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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Re:Sad

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Yes, there is.
I Actually would go a little further than the GPL does, and forbide any use of Software under such license to create, or contribute in any way with propietary code. For example: you wouldn't be abel to use gcc to compile propietary code or GIMP to edit the splash screen; if it were for me,i would even say that someone that writes propietary code can't even use a Free mail client.
I'm not an extremist, i just see many different aproaches to kill Free Software, which are very diferent (and more scary), that the ones seen in the past: Before, They just attacked the comunity directly on the face, now they build busineses arround Free Software, that doesn't sound that bad at the first look, but it's rotting the hole spirit of the GNU Project, the GNU Project is disapearing, there are just left lots of different apps, eachs project on it's own, creating their own fundations, and reciving donations from the ones that are against them through those fundations.
So, the idea of creating the GNU operating System is fading out .. slowly; and being replaced with the comercial shit of Open Source development, which to me sound like the "zen of bussiness", and other productivididizied marketroid shit like that.