[GRASS5] Re: [bug #2368] (grass) AGNPS licensing problem

[Helena Mitasova]

You can close it, we discussed it - this is one of the responses - the 
original r.agnps is public domain. I have also checked with people in 
Oxford MS. r.agnps is really old compared to the newest version - it is 
at least 10 years old.

Helena

Maciek Sieczka via RT wrote:
> Helena,
> 
> Bernhard is asking you a question in this report. Do you mind taking a look at it?
> 
> Maciek
> 
> -------------------------------------------- Managed by Request Tracker
Subject: Re: old AGNPS
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:19:32 -0600
From: R. Srinivasan <r-srinivasan at tamu.edu>
To: Helena <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>

Helena,
As far as using the code and version of agnps that was developed, you can
distribute it as GPL...however if anyone using newer version of AGNPS, you
may want to check with the ARS group in Oxford, MS...

Srini

At 12:20 PM 10/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
 >Srini,
 >
 >I am contacting you because recently some questions were raised regarding
 >the copyright
 >and licence of r.agnps - see the excerpts from a relevant email below.
 >  The issue is whether it can be distributed under GPL or whether
 >it should be moved to src.nonGPL that is not included in the 
distributions
 >where there
 >could be problems. Do you think that the current developers of AGNPS
 >should also be contacted
 >for copyright clarification? If yes, do you have any suggestion for who
 >would be a good
 >person to talk to? I am not sure whether anybody is using the code
 >anymore, but in general
 >we are trying to keep all the original code in GRASS as sometimes the old
 >modules are picked-up
 >and updated.
 >
 >thank you very much for your assistance,
 >
 >best regards,
 >
 >Helena
 >
 >
 >I found out that the original source from Purdue
 >         AGNPS 1.1, see the link from
 >         http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/phygeo/grass/agnps.html
 >contains a file called PERMISSION in the directory /programs/r.agnps
 >which contains emails that somehow allow the integration in GRASS,
 >however there is no real license (permission to release the source
 >code as Free Software) which would be needed.
 >
 >Here some quotes,
 >however follows up on this should certainly try to find
 >and contact Raghavan Srinivasan or Bernard Engel.
 >
 >
 >         From: James Darrell McCauley <mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu>
 >
 >         From: srin at brcsun0.tamu.edu (Srin)
 >         To: mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
 >         Subject: Re: GRASS and simulation models
 >         Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:36:19 -0600
 >
 >
 >         I don't have any problem of releasing agnps interface with grass,
 >
 >         THanks and can you let me know if you are able to contribute 
to the
 >         GRASS community.
 >
 >Step ii): Contact the AGNPS people for clarification
 > >                       of the copyright.
 > >               http://www.sedlab.olemiss.edu/agnps.html