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Open Source: NASA’s Open Source Licensing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 14, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Bryan A. Geurts, Patent Attorney, for NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center has submitted a first draft of their NASA OPEN SOURCE
AGREEMENT to the Open Source Initiative for approval…

“More interesting is that fact that they are looking for such
approval. The obvious question is what will be released to the
community and other space agencies once the license is approved to
meet the open source definition…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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