[GRASS-ABM] GPLv3 Draft

[Michael Barton]

Although this may be moot given the direction that we are headed at the
moment, I read through the part of the GPL3 draft discussing links and it
certainly *looks* like we'd be OK if we wanted to use something like SWIG in
the future. But then I'm not a lawyer.

Michael
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> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:46:21 +0100
> To: "North, Michael" <north at anl.gov>
> Cc: <grass-abm at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-ABM] GPLv3 Draft
> 
> Mike,
> 
> why not? I have read such comments in *the* German online
> magazine (if you understand German, I can post the URL).
> 
> Say, I would like to understand why it does not help.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  Markus
> 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:38:36AM -0600, North, Michael wrote:
>> Markus:
>> 
>> Unfortunately, no.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: grass-abm-admin at grass.itc.it
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>>> On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
>>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:56 AM
>>> To: grass-abm at grass.itc.it
>>> Subject: [GRASS-ABM] GPLv3 Draft
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> does the GPLv3 [Draft] resolve the linking to BSD Style
>>> licenses?
>>> 
>>>  http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft
>>> 
>>> The GRASS COPYING states: "GPL 2 or later at your choice..."
>>> (whatever that means).
>>> 
>>> Markus
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