[GRASS-ABM] [frankie@debian.org: Re: [GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]]

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:12:31AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> I think that the issue is not whether GRASS can use a piece of software
> under a BSD/MIT license, but whether a piece of software licensed under
> BDS/MIT can use GRASS.
> 
> Does that make sense? Should this question go to the list? If this kind of
> question can be clarified, it might help a lot.

Michael,

I would appreciate if you could ask this on the list.
 
> In this context, does this mean that we CAN use the OpenDWG libraries to
> distribute v.in.dwg?

No. Because OpenDWG comes with a non-free license. Distribution
of binaries which contain OpenDWG is prohibited, and those
people unfortunately only distribute static libs.

Markus

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> > From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:46:14 +0100
> > To: <grass-abm at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: [GRASS-ABM] [frankie at debian.org: Re: [GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5]
> > FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]]
> > 
> > Attached a FWD from GRASS-dev.
> > 
> > Interestingly there is the opinion that GRASS *is*
> > compliant with new-BSD and MIT:
> > 
> > http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-March/021606.html
> > http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-March/021611.html
> > 
> > Now I wonder why we discussed this some weeks ago? Maybe
> > I am getting something wrong here.
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
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