[GRASS5] Licence problem? SCS

[Thierry Laronde]

Thanks for the answer!

BTW, there is no such law here (in France) where public organizations
are even encouraged, nowadays, to patent their software (written with
public funds)... ironically even preventing local enterprises to be 
silently "sponsored" via this release of code source...

Regards,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:49:48AM -0500, Thomas Adams wrote:
> Thierry,
> 
> The SCS (Soil Conservation Service), which is now called the Natural 
> Resources Conservation Service, is part of the U.S. Department of 
> Agriculture. By law, all U.S. Government software is in the public 
> domain. Consequently, it is safe to use.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Thierry Laronde wrote:
> 
> >The programs like v.rmedge, v.extract and some others authored by
> >R. L. Glenn from SCS where in src.contrib.
> >
> >I haven't found a licence for them, so strictly speaking since this 
> >was not released as a core component of the public domain GRASS there 
> >may be some problems.
> >
> >Is there some information around? The fact that SCS is a governemental
> >organization (right?) is not enough.
> >  
> >
> 
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