[GRASS5] why GPL

strobe anarkhos anarkhos at mac.com
Thu Mar 22 10:45:43 EST 2001


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>At least the GRASS I/O routines shall be released under LGPL. When
>restructuring GRASS, we'll make use of Frank Warmerdam's "libgrass".
>Like that proprietary products will be allowed to read/write GRASS
>databases directly. See the libgrass link at:
> http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/related_projects.html

I don't consider this a solution.

>Generally I feel that GPL is a quite good license for GRASS. We have
>quite good experience with that.

The only difference between the GPL and LGPL is software linked to the GRASS library would not have to be GPL. It offers the same protection of the software, but doesn't scare away people who do not want to release GPL software.


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