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NASA Launches Open Source Portal

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-your-typical-nasa-launch dept.

sproketboy writes "NASA has launched code.nasa.gov, which will become a portal for NASA's open source software development activities. In its current form, it hosts a directory of the organization's open source software projects and provides documentation about NASA's open source software processes."

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  1. Disappointed by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought NASA created a worm hole of sorts and was going to open source that.
    This news is much less exciting ):

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  2. Re:Wait... by g0bshiTe · · Score: 4, Funny

    My functions are already out of this world.

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  3. Re:why isn't it public domain? by Trepidity · · Score: 2

    They have their own custom license, the NASA Open Source Agreement.

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  4. Re:why isn't it public domain? by rwv · · Score: 2

    I dug very briefly into the Vision Workbench tool and found code labeled (paraphrasing) "Property of US Government via NASA: All Right Reserved". They should do a basic sanity check for this before publishing something and claiming it's Open.

  5. Cave Johnson must be furious by pezpunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    first Black Mesa steals all his contracts, now NASA open-sources his IP.

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  6. Re:why isn't it public domain? by ch-chuck · · Score: 2

    Would be much more GNU like if they came up with something like 'Nasa Available Source Agreement', NASA, but NOSA?
    Guess we should be happy they didn't use 'Nasa Open Source Entitlement'.

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  7. Modern VCS by l0b0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GitHub repos? Looks like somebody over there has a clue.