Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by binarycoffee 1215 days ago
I you think the NASA Open Source License is bad, look at the default license for non-commercial, ESA-funded software [1].

The territorial limitations effectively prevents any form of open distribution, yet the license is open enough to remove most commercial incentive for maintenance and further development: a perfect recipe to make software instant abandonware upon release.

[1] https://essr.esa.int/license/european-space-agency-community...