[OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Dirk Frigne]

Great!
This is a crisp and clear answer.

Just Ignore my first reaction to contact FSF I just send to the mailing
list... and please keep us informed.

D.

On 21-09-15 12:44, Jo Cook wrote:
> Brilliant,
> 
> I'd be happy to see that blogpost published as a rebuttal.
> 
> Jo
> 
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Martin Isenburg
> <martin.isenburg at gmail.com <mailto:martin.isenburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     We (Oliver and me) had contacted the (new) editor (Roland Mangold
>     who is cc-ed) last week and suggested to use the contents of this
>     blog article
> 
>     http://odoepner.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/lidar-news-publishes-uninformed-gpl-rant/
> 
>     authored by Oliver Doepner as a factual rebuttal of Lewis Graham's
>     FUD rant on GPL/LGPL for publishing in the next issue of the LiDAR
>     Magazine (the two-month ago rebranded LiDAR News magazine). I have
>     no final word from the Roland yet but our communication suggested
>     that this would happen. Please check Oliver's column for any errors
>     (should you care) so he can correct them prior to this being published.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Martin @rapidlasso
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Jo Cook
>     <jocook at astuntechnology.com <mailto:jocook at astuntechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
>         I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely
>         respond to. Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain
>         that there were some factual errors in the article, and ask for
>         a chance to respond?
> 
>         Jo
> 
>         On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw
>         <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com <mailto:johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
> 
>             On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
>             <martin.isenburg at gmail.com
>             <mailto:martin.isenburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>             > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source
>             license LGPL) was
>             > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source
>             Mania" by Lewis
>             > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine.
>             Viewer discretion
>             > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not
>             like this FUD
>             > attack:
>             >
>             >
>             http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
>             >
> 
>             I read the article and there are a lot of statements there
>             which are false.
>             " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
>             launching it with a Python script, that script must now be
>             GPLed"
>             not true
> 
>             "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm
>             on which
>             you and your university have applied for a patent. If you
>             have coded
>             your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
>             patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open
>             Software
>             Foundation for free distribution."
> 
>             Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not
>             exist. You
>             don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known
>             counter-example is
>             the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released
>             under LGPL.
> 
>             I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is
>             an attack
>             on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free
>             Software
>             Foundation Europe to help write a response?
> 
>             Kind Regards,
>             Johan
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> 
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