Contacts to FSF to resolve license issue!?

[Oliver Falk]

Hi!

A few days ago, I stumbled across the freshmeat announcement of
nodemon/growler [0]. Both are NASA projects under NOSA 1.3 license.
While in the first moment I thought, NOSA is free, FSF page list this
license (at least in version 1.3) as non-free. After reading the
description, I was clear for me why it is non-free. [1]

However, I contacted Mr. Bryan Green (author of nodemon/growler) and
asked him if there's a chance to release the software under a *really
free* license or if there's a chance to get a new version of NOSA (eg
1.4), that actually is FSF compliant and therefor software can be
included into Fedora.

But it seems, NASA already tried to get in touch with FSF to solve the
issue, but FSF wasn't very cooperative (no offense!).

I'd be glad, if someone has good contacts to FSF and we can bring
together NASA and FSF, to solve that issue. Not only for nodemon/growler
 to make it into Fedora, but also to make the world just another bit
*more* free! I know of some people, who'll be smiling about this
sentence... :-) Don't you?

-of

[0] http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~bgreen/nodemon/
    http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~bgreen/growler/
[1] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/; Search for NASA.