[GRASS-ABM] [frankie@debian.org: Re: [GRASSLIST:10783] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]]

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:47:13AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> I think that the issue is not whether GRASS can use a piece of software
> under a BSD/MIT license, but whether a piece of software licensed under
> BDS/MIT can use GRASS.
> 

Of course no, the resulting program will be GPL. I mean the GRASS
library, because mere aggregation is legitimate. This is the reason
why libc is LGPL for instance. And surely a derivative GRASS work
will be GPL, as well.

> Does that make sense? If this kind of question can be clarified, it might
> help a lot.
> 

Sure, clarified :)

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Francesco P. Lovergine