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

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:03:27PM +0100, Laurent C. wrote:
> You're right. It's a caracteristic of BSD licenced software to can be
> integrated into software with different licence, even non-free.
> And sometime, GPL'd software aren't enough free because they can't be used
> by other free software because of licence restriction.
> That why I think IMHO that some type of code should be licenced under a more
> permissive licence. I'm thinking about libraries or protocols.
> 

Re-licensing the GRASS library only under LGPL would allow those kind of things.

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Francesco P. Lovergine