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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Hi Cristina,</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">As the license used for GRASS GIS is the GPL, you can just look at the general documentation concerning that license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">If I understand your use case correctly, this is relevant to you: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL.</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">IANAL, but as far as I know using output of GRASS GIS commands does not violate the GPL.</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">May I ask what license the UPV software is under? I can only encourage any code to be under a free license, and university code in particular, knowing that its production is generally funded by public money.</span> <br> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Best wishes,</span> <br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Moritz </span> <br> <br>
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<p>4 janv. 2023 13:46:36 Cristina Alemany Lazaro <calemany@i2t.upv.es>:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Sir/Madam, </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">My name is Cristina Alemany, Technology Transfer Manager at the Universitat Politècnica de València. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Some of our researchers develop software that needs to call GRASS GIS for work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We do not develop commands or sentences that can be part of or included in GRASS GIS, but our code calls to GRASS GIS commands that return data to the UPV code. The end user is responsible for having GRASS installed on their computer for the UPV software to work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">After reading your <span style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/about/license/">Copyright and Licensing Information</a></span> page, we have doubts about how it affects our software.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We understand that the license affects developments to implement new language commands or modify or redistribute existing ones inside the GRASS GIS source code.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">But, Does this license also affect the use of data obtained with GRASS GIS in external software?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" mso-fareast-language: EN-US; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We look forward to hearing back from you and would appreciate your advice.</span></p>
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