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

[Markus Neteler]

Paolo,

I don't think that there is any intention to render GRASS
non-free. The idea of the foundation is to protect the freedom
of GFOSS projects. It's debatable though, if MIT/X11 means
freedom (for some it does, see GDAL/OGR).

GPL and LGPL do so in my opinion.

Let's see what OSGeo board/lawyer/discussion answers now,
I have sent the GRASS dev team comments to the board list
of OSGeo.

Markus

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 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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