[Liblas-devel] DebianGIS packaging; license

[Howard Butler]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Hamish wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> a few questions:
>
> - I would like to see liblas 1.0 packaged for Debian. Over at the
> DebianGIS project* we can host and help develop the build rules in our
> SVN, and give you access to the brains a number of experienced Debian
> developers, but before we can do that a question about the license..
> [*] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis
>
> - your LICENSE.txt looks fine, but the original lastools license  
> does not.
> Specifically it lacks any permission to use, modify, or redistribute  
> the
> code. All it says is that they hope it will be useful. Is there an  
> email
> archived somewhere by Martin Isenburg which states the code is BSD?
> Without that the vetting crew at Debian will immediately cry foul.
>

Martin,

Could you give us an official blessing of our BSD usage of the  
lastools stuff in libLAS to satisfy the Debian licensing  
requirements?  I know you had supported our efforts in the past, and I  
could dig up an email where we discussed things.  The lastools code  
that we currently use is a port of the commandline utilities to use  
the base library.

Howard