Contacts to FSF to resolve license issue!?

[Mauricio Pretto]

Oliver Falk wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> 
Hi Oliver,
    Can you check the website http://www.fsfe.org/
    I'm friend of Georg he is the founder of fsf europe, very friendly
guy, i think he may be able to help us.
    If you can't get in touch with him, let me know and i will go
directly to him, ok?

Regards

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