The code.NASA project is a catalog of software distributed by the NASA and which is used by its space projects. There are some problems in this project : -Most of software are proprietary, under the NOSA (NASA Open Source Agreement). NOSA is open source but not free. I call that a POSS license (Proprietary Open Source Software)[0]. This is a prove of the laxism of the OSD (Open Source Definition). -Some software is for a certain group. I understand that critical software should be reserved for the Government (except the National Surveillance Agency[1], of course) but some programs are reserved for Americans. This is very shocking and discriminatory. I do not see why Americans would be safer than non-Americans. This is pure and simple racism. Do America need a second Luther King?
[0]: FLCSS (Free/Libre Closed Source Software) exist too, because the point 9 of the OSD haven't equivalent in the FSD (Free Software Definition). A FLCSS license is a license which restricts other software distributed on aggregates. A FLCSS license is surely the ultimate copyleft. [1]: Beautiful pun about NSA, no? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
