[GRASS-dev] Re: licensing question

[Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva]

is there any other list where I could ask this?

Thanks,

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Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
FSF Associate Member #7788
GNU LibreDWG maintainer

2010/1/11 Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <pitanga at members.fsf.org>:
> I am writing a new DWG import module based on v.in.dwg that uses
> LibreDWG, a free software DWG parsing library
> [http://gnu.org/software/libredwg].
>
> Facts:
> 1. the module code is based on the original v.in.dwg, GPLv2 or later,
> but is not published yet (I am planning to keep the license).
> 2. LibreDWG is GPLv3 or later.
>
> AFAIK, that would make a dwg-capable binary release GPLv3, but if the
> module's code remains GPLv2 or later there would be no conflict with
> the current GRASS licensing as long as binary releases are not shipped
> with DWG support built in.
>
> Question:
> Is there a licensing problem? Would it be possible to host v.in.redwg
> in addons-svn?
>
> (I've read http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToContribute#WriteaccesstotheGRASS-Addons-SVNrepository
> and http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/rfc/rfc2_psc.html
> before posting to grass-dev, sorry if I'm asking something obvious but
> it wasn't clear to me)
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
> PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
> FSF Associate Member #7788
>



-- 
Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
FSF Associate Member #7788