[GRASS-ABM] [frankie@debian.org: Re: [GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]]

[Michael Barton]

I think that the issue is not whether GRASS can use a piece of software
under a BSD/MIT license, but whether a piece of software licensed under
BDS/MIT can use GRASS.

Does that make sense? If this kind of question can be clarified, it might
help a lot.

Michael
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> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:46:14 +0100
> To: <grass-abm at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS-ABM] [frankie at debian.org: Re: [GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5]
> FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]]
> 
> Attached a FWD from GRASS-dev.
> 
> Interestingly there is the opinion that GRASS *is*
> compliant with new-BSD and MIT:
> 
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-March/021606.html
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-March/021611.html
> 
> Now I wonder why we discussed this some weeks ago? Maybe
> I am getting something wrong here.
> 
> Markus
> 
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