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. > -- Oliver Falk UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer Mail: oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +43 (664) 838 59 25 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
