[amsat-bb] NASA and Open Source

[Bruce Perens]

Sorry. The problem is not really that AMSAT doesn't do enough open source.
The problem is that AMSAT seems to be  overly constrained in its action.
Open Source is part of an overall strategy we suggest for a cure.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 3:04 PM Peter Goodhall (2M0SQL) <peter at magicbug.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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