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NASA Open Source License Still Up For Discussion

Posted by timothy on from the tax-dollars-want-to-benefit-the-commonweal dept.

Russ Nelson writes "There's been plenty of heated discussion about the NASA Open Source License, but although the OSI board approved five licenses and sent back seven, the NASA License is still up in the air, so to speak, hehe."

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  1. I think its still a good idea by HenryFjord · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just the fact that a government agency is willing to release code which they have created is a very postive sign. It is expected that it would be impossible to apply something such as the GPL to code maintained by a public funded entity. But even with a license more restrictive than the GPL releasing this code will obviously do much more good than harm to the open source community.

    I say kudos to them all

  2. They could work with Creative Commons. by ron_ivi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I hope they take a look at what rights they want to protect, and if it fits one of the existing Creative Commons licenses, use it.

    More importantly, if it doesn't fit one, it does identify a need for another license, and they could work with creative commons to create a new license that fits that need that everyone can use.