[GRASS5] Licensing problem

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:07:40AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> > Markus by accident found out that there is a potential 
> > licensing problem left that we need to deal with.
> > 
> > It probably affects all versions of GRASS
> > and especially the upcoming 5.0.3.
> > 
> > 
> > We need to:
> > 
> > 	a) replace ./src/include/color.h
> > 
> > 	Method 1: Check if there once was a public domain version
> > 	with this file and use that one.
> > 
> > 	Method 2:
> > 	The contents itself a simple.
> > 
> > 	Glynn: Would it make sense to rewrite this and
> > 	reshuffle the stuff with colors.h into one file anyway?
> > 	If yes, would you be willing to do it?
> 
> Method 3:
> 
> Delete src/include/color.h and replace its sole use in
> src/ps.map/ps.map/cmd/vector.h with a local definition for the only
> portion which is actually used:
> 
> 	typedef	struct {
> 		unsigned short r, g, b;
> 	} RGB;

Sound good to me if "color.h" is not included somewhere else.
Can you make the change Method 3 then?

> I'm fairly sure that the above struct definition doesn't qualify as an
> "original work".

I agree.
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