SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials [LWN.net]

SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials

Posted Sep 11, 2021 14:36 UTC (Sat) by jebba (guest, #4439)
In reply to: SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials by Vipketsh
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The old NASA standards were all public and online. Now NASA is proprietary too. FWIW, I pulled together all I could find of NASA's last open standards related to wiring, soldering, etc. Maybe you find it interesting:

https://code.forksand.com/forksand/NASA-standards

https://code.forksand.com/forksand/NASA-standards/raw/bra...

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SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials

Posted Sep 11, 2021 15:16 UTC (Sat) by calumapplepie (guest, #143655) [Link]

To be clear: NASA now says "our standard is that published by $LARGER_INDUSTRY_GROUP , which will charge money". They don't say "We produced this standard, so you need to pay us money for it". Copyright doesn't apply to official works of the US federal government, so they can't do that. There are still many NASA standards that are open: of course, that's generally because they are spaceship-specific.