[GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:52:49AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:57:12PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> > I understand this perspective and welcome mechanisms by which developers and
> > contributors can have their work properly credited and distributed.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I've already run into problems in trying to establish
> > links between GRASS and other open source software, using other licenses
> > (BSD and MIT). Because GRASS is GPL, if the developers of the other software
> > do not want to license under GPL, we are very limited in the kinds of
> > linkages we can establish. I understand (I think) the basic principals
> > though not the legal details.


> there have been discussions earlier on releasing some libraries
> under LGPL (you will remember).
> 
> What's your suggestions to deal with the issue mentioned by Michael?

Micheal mentioned BSD and MIT licensed software.
These two licenses are GPL-compatible.
There shouldn't be a major issue, should there?

Best

	Jan
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