New license will be better than the current one (Score 2, Informative)

An open source license of any type will be a huge step forward. I'm part of a team that recently received NASA software in support of an open source aviation safety project. The current license will let us learn from the NASA work, and the engineers at Goddard & Langley are very supportive of getting it out to the public. However, we are stuck with the same license that is used for contracted work related to national security. As a result, we cannot actually use a single line of NASA code in our application. The killer clause in the license they used with us:

"The SOFTWARE is intended for domestic use only and shall not be made available to anyone outside of the United States. In addition, within the United States, the software shall not be made available to foreign nationals. Furthermore, the SOFTWARE shall not be provided to any person or entity listed on any "denied parties/persons" list (including the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons; Office of Foreign Assets Control, Changes to List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons; Office of Defense Trade Controls, List of Debarred Parties; Bureau of Export Administration, List of Denied Persons; Bureau of Export Administration, Entity List). UNDERSIGNED certifies that he/she is a U.S. person (as defined by 22 CFR _120.15) and is not listed on any of the aforementioned lists."