Contacts to FSF to resolve license issue!?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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?

Brett Smith, brett AT fsf.org is the licensing compliance engineer at 
FSF is probably best suited to handle such cases. Do you have more 
information on what exactly NASA suggested to FSF?

Rahul