[GRASS5] GRASS and LGPL

[Andreas Lange]

Hi GRASSdevelopers,

i agree with Bernhard. The required parts of the libararies should be
made available under LGPL, but only those parts that are absolutely
required. We should bear in mind what consequences loosening the
copyright could have. 

cu,

Andreas

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> However I believe that we should make the libraries which deal with
> interoperabilty available under LGPL. Frank want access to the GRASS
> data file structures, we should seperate that part of the GRASS
> libraries and release it under the GNU Lesser General Public License
> (LGPL).
> 
> And of course we all know that Frank Warmerdam's intentions are good and
> he is a great contributor to free software.  Frank: Can you identify the
> library (parts) of GRASS, you need for accessing grass files?  It should
> be as small as possible. We should to get consensus to release this part
> under LGPL.
> 

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Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de - A.C.Lange at GMX.net



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