Elon Musk says that NASA is free to share all SpaceX IP with ‘anyone it wants’

SpaceX CEO joined NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne today to provide an update on the commercial crew launch program that the company is working on with the agency. During the remarks, which detailed the current state of the program and next steps, Musk reiterated twice that the intellectual property it's developing in working with the agency is free for NASA to share with whoever it should wish.

Early on in the Q+A portion of the event, Musk said that the learnings that SpaceX has gathered from the Crew Dragon parachute development program is free to share with anyone who wants it - SpaceX is working on its third major iteration of the parachutes it will use to ensure the Crew Capsule's safe return to Earth.

"I've been very very clear with Jim that any SpaceX data should not be considered proprietary," Musk said during the remarks. "It can be used by any of our competitors ["] No charge."

Later on, he reiterated that what he meant was literally any of SpaceX's IP is on the table for NASA to distribute freely as the agency sees fit.

"I want to be clear: NASA can share all of our IP with anyone that NASA wants," Musk said. To which Bridentstine replied that the agency genuinely appreciated this freedom but that it has limits on that potential sharing to consider.

"There is IP that it is in the inters of the nation that we cannot be sharing with people, or with countries that would not have our interest at heart," adding that this is why it's important that the partners have all their information technology secured and protection measures in place.