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The US Department of Defense is in the process of releasing all of its custom software under Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) licenses with a deadline of June for getting under way. Most of the barriers so far have been legal and policy ones, not technical.
As part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Department has until June to start moving much of its custom-developed software source code to a central repository and begin managing and licensing it via open source methods.
The mandate might prove daunting for an organization in which open source practices are relatively scarce, especially considering that, until recently, there was no established open source playbook for the federal government. That's begun to change, however, with the Office of Management and Budget's code.gov, and its DoD corollary, code.mil, run by the Defense Digital Service (DDS).
The fact that such software is actually under public domain inside the US adds a small twist to the release process.
From Federal News Radio : Amid congressional mandate to open source DoD's software code, Code.mil serves as guidepost.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:00PM (2 children)
Even Joe Shit the ragman could roll his own nowadays. OpenCV plus Haar cascades and a few more clever tricks could accomplish this.
The problem with good American drones is that they're android-based and locked down. They are prevented from flying in certain zones. You don't have a say in that. Your drone won't even take off.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:26PM (1 child)
The fuck it won't.
Like it's very hard to build your own drone!
If you buy it already flashed with a firmware outside your control, you worth your disappointment.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 19 2018, @02:32PM
Things are evolving ridiculously fast in drone-land, I made a little quadcopter maybe two years ago using nase32 and cleanflight and its already "grandpa tell us about your ancient antique is it true you configure cleanflight with punchcards?"
I lived thru the 70s/80s home computers, so I 'm kinda used to this pace of innovation, but there's some aspect of "this, again?" annoyance.
Its exactly like how the guy with 8 inch floppies and CP/M on an Altair meeting a guy like three years newer who has the worlds first macintosh, and its like yeah the hobby is changing kinda quick right now.