[GRASS5] NVIZ-RST-licence

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Wed Sep 6 10:34:35 EDT 2000


Dear Helena,
thanks for resolving the issue so fast.
I will make the changes in the CVS version tomorrow.

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:45:00PM -0500, Helena Mitasova - staff wrote:
> You may not have noticed but s.surf.rst had the same
> statement as NVIZ regarding its commercial use.
> I asked Bernhard to change this statement
> so that it complies with GPL and GRASS5.


> As a related issue, I would like to ask that if you want to 
> change s.surf.rst and replace it in GRASS please
> create a version with a new name (e.g. s.surf.rst1).
> We did the same when we switched from s.surf.tps to
> s.surf.rst and kept the old program
> in GRASS untill s.surf.rst was thoroughly tested by several years 
> of use. The code is pretty complicated and introduced
> bugs may distort the results only for special cases
> and can be very hard to find and fix.

As you know CVS preserves all prior versions.
We should keep a copy of the old and tested code in the distribution.

Regards,
	Bernhard
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