[GRASS5] licence

[Bernhard Reiter]

Helena,
thanks for the detailed information and
the relicense of your GRASS code to GPL.
This is very helpful!

I will make the necessary changes in the next days
and tackle the next steps one by one.

Regards,
	Bernhard

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:26:41AM -0500, Helena Mitasova - staff wrote:
> 
> Berhard,
> 
> You can change the following (I will doublecheck with Bill,
> but these were funded by CERL so there should not be a problem):
> grass/src/libes/datetime
> grass/src/raster/r.surf.area/main.c,v
> 
> All geom stuff may be a problem - the earlier sofwtware was
> public domain but then ncsa and uofi put some restrictions on it
> (after the people who developed this and lots of other triangulation
> code founded a company which is  actually located here in Triangle
> but I cannot find Roman's Waupotitsch current email anywhere
> and I am not sure whether he moved over here or not).
> I know that they had lots of troubles with uofi. I will keep
> searching. 
> grass/src/libes/geom/optri
> 
> For r.water.fea please contact Baxter Vieux:
> 
> Baxter Vieux, Associate Professor
>                  EMAIL: bvieux at ou.edu
>               HOMEPAGE: http://chief.ecn.ou.edu/
>                  PHONE: (405) 325-5911
>                    FAX: (405) 325-4217
>        MAILING ADDRESS:
>            School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
>                                     University of Oklahoma
>                                     202 W Boyd St., Room 334
>                                     Norman, OK 73019 
> 
> For the Pablo stuff for HDF - Dan Reed, the head of
> Computer Science at UofI has just become a director of NCSA,
> with lots of changes and new construction handling issues
> so I don't really want to bother him with this.
> 
> It would be probably better to check with Mike Folk
> (he knows GRASS so you don't need to explain him what it is)
> 
> Senior Software Engineer and Manager of the HDF Group.
>      mfolk at ncsa.uiuc.edu 
> 
> you can also check out their web site about hdf
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
> to see whether what is in GRASS is up-to-date.

Yes. Though I believe that there is at least no license
problem with hdf, IIRC.

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