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I dislike that they link to the full legal license without explanation or comment. I cannot read legal it makes my brain hurt. As a commercial closed-source sof

• desdiv 12y ago
  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement OSI says it's an open source license, but FSF says no. In your case, I'd say you're in the clear, since you're clearly making an “original creation” in NASA terms. Does anyone know why NASA's open source code isn't in the public domain like it's supposed to be [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U._S._government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...
  • tbirdz 12y ago
    >Does anyone know why NASA's open source code isn't in the public domain like it's supposed to be? That only applies to works done by federal employees. Most of the coding is probably done by contractors, who are not required to release their work under public domain. However, it seems NASA might have made it a part of the contract to release the code under an open source license.