Contacts to FSF to resolve license issue!?

[Oliver Falk]

ping!

On 11/06/2007 08:47 PM, Oliver Falk wrote:
> 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.
> 


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Oliver Falk
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