On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:20:49PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > There is much discussion spent deciding whether NASA can copyright > software at all. The license itself says that no copyright is claimed > in the United States. >> The only serious concern that I can see is that the license requires > the recipient to indemnify the Government of the United States against > third party lawsuits. I disagree. I raised two potentially problems that I saw with the license where it had vageness issues that could cause it to not meet the OSD. See: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:7720:200402:jfdgbalgdhgblndpmljm I think the mere aggregation problem I raised is probably the clearest of the issues. I don't think either of these issues are by intent. I think they're on accident and some minor modifications could fix them. > Title: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1 > Submission: http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:7698:200402:jfdgbalgdhgblndpmljm > License: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/Open-Source/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement_1.1.txt > Comments: ongoing as of this writing. > Recommend: more discussion. -- Ben Reser <ben at reser.org> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3