Re: NASA releases parts of mars robots sotware package as open source.

Jan Panteltje writes:
NASA releases mars robots sotware package as open source:
http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov/man/overview/index.php

Look at the license. It is neither Free Software nor Open Source.
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