On: NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs for free

[omoikane]

There are quite a few that are free for all, but most of them come with some restrictions. I tried to get a count of them[1] and got these numbers:

General Public Release - 132

U.S. Release Only - 210

U.S. Government Purpose Release - 139

U.S. and Foreign Release - 38

[1] These were counted by looking for strings in the PDF catalog. There are definitely some duplicates.

   wget https://software.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/NASA_Software_Catalog_2023-24.pdf
   gs -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o a.txt NASA_Software_Catalog_2023-24.pdf
   grep -F "General Public Release" a.txt | wc -l
   grep -F "U.S. Release Only" a.txt | wc -l
   grep -F "U.S. Government Purpose Release" a.txt | wc -l
   grep -F "U.S. and Foreign Release" a.txt | wc -l

[JorgeGT → omoikane]

Yes, this is no-cost but not necessarily open source. NASA open source software can be found at: https://code.nasa.gov/

[TheRealPomax → omoikane]

Technically all of them come with restrictions, because if Nasa released them that software is still subject to the US's "we wrote this so we can sue you, not to actually prevent it" export bans on software to countries it doesn't like.

For example, none of these programs may be made available to Iranians, even if they were to aid somehow in fighting the Iranian government.