[GRASSLIST:10816] Re: [GRASS5] FWD: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation Committee / Contributor Agreements]

[Hamish]

Michael:
> > On the other hand, I've already run into problems in trying to
> > establish links between GRASS and other open source software, using
> > other licenses (BSD and MIT). Because GRASS is GPL, if the
> > developers of the other software do not want to license under GPL,
> > we are very limited in the kinds of linkages we can establish. I
> > understand (I think) the basic principals though not the legal
> > details.

Can you elaborate? We can use BSD/MIT code (e.g. X, GDAL), but they
can't distribute or link to GPL code without being GPL too.
We couldn't distribute the DWG lib regardless of what our license was.

> > It would be nice if we could maintain GPL principals for
> > contributors who feel most strongly about this, but could also find
> > some way to let GRASS interact more flexibly with other software. I
> > don't know how this can happen, but I hope that OSGeo can help work
> > some of this out. 

Again, details of a specific problem?



Hamish