[OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox GAT

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi John,

Thanks for your response.  I guess my next question is how does the
community contribute to your project.  Please respond to this mailing
list so others can learn of your project.  Don't take my questions the
wrong way: that we are discussing your project on this OSGeo list is
great for your project's visibility.

-jeff
OSGeo President



On 2014-05-03, 5:32 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Thank you for your response to my posting on the OSGeo listserv. I think that there might be some confusion though. The Whitebox GAT project is in the open source realm. It's been developed using the GNU GPL licence and the source code is available from a public repository on google code that supports SVN versioning. You're always welcome to download and modify all of the code, which is also viewable from the internet. In fact, if you are running Whitebox on your machine, you don't even need to download the source code from the repo...a large proportion of the code comes with the executable and is viewable using the 'View Code' button on each of the tools. This is a part of what I refer to as open-access software. There is a listserv for Whitebox users, although it's true that you need to sign up for it to post a question...that's a restriction that University puts on the listserv I'm afraid and I suspect it has to do with spam more than anything. I'm a strong proponent of open-sour
ce software.
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