NASA Goes SourceForge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 27, 2005 @04:03AM from the hey-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

refactorator writes "We have a lift-off! The NASA Ames Research Center has open sourced Java PathFinder , a JVM that is an explicit state software model checker, all written in Java. For the first time, the complete master development site of a live NASA software engineering project is hosted on SourceForge. Read the official press release for details. The team around John Penix, Willem Visser, and Peter Mehlitz fought long and hard to get the development hosted outside of NASA, to enable true collaborative software development. Now show the government that it works - join the fray. May Java PathFinder boldly go where no NASA program has gone before." (Both Slashdot and SourceForge are part of VA Software.)

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Re:Hmm... This is new. by Jerf · 2005-04-27 05:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Can you reconcile your post with the fact that the license says "requested", not "required"?
Re:Hmm... This is new. by spurious+cowherd · 2005-04-27 05:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

Requested
A simple perusal of the site will show that you do not have to register. They're just asking & you can still get the code if you don't register.
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Re:Hmm... This is new. by Tarrio · 2005-04-27 06:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

You're requested, not required.

Requested is "pretty please...". Required is "do it or else".