[amsat-bb] NASA and Open Source

[Peter Goodhall (2M0SQL)]

Bruce,

I totally get your pro-open source, but it seems to be every email
thread, I'd sure hope that AMSAT Engineering was aware of that clause.

Being lots of educational CubeSats use COTS parts, isn't it likely
that most would be only open sourcing the ground station elements
which might come under "Open Source Software" and be suitable for
NASA's guidelines, while AMSAT doesn't to my knowledge release gerber
pcb files it does release a good amount of ground station code, think
Fox Telem is open source and as others have pointed out there's other
projects shared on Github relating to AMSAT satellites.

Peter, 2M0SQL

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 19:15, Bruce Perens via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> I am reading a NASA Grant application today, and noticed this text:
>
> Program elements will give preference to proposals that include a plan for
> committing
> software as Open Source Software (OSS), beginning at the inception of the
> proposed
> work. This plan will include the identification of software components
> developed as part
> of the proposed work, and designate a permissive, widely accepted OSS
> license and a
> public repository hosting service for these components.
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