[GRASSLIST:10801] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all.
A professional user view: for us, it is VERY important to have guarantees that 
the GRASS code will remain free. The risk of hijacking is a serious threat to 
our business.
pc

At 08:48, mercoledì 08 marzo 2006, Roger Bivand has probably written:
...
> I share Glynn's view. While I don't commit to GRASS source, insight into
> the R foundation (I am an ordinary member, that is a board member), and
> work with the interfaces suggests that, for the mix of contributors in
> GRASS, GPL with LGPL for carefully chosen components is best. The R engine
> is GPL/LGPL, and most of the 800+ contributed packages follow the same
> model, including those in Bioconductor, the leading open source
> bioinformatics project.
...
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