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 -- Pretto http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
