[GRASS-dev] r.terraflow not GPL

[Michael Barton]

r.terraflow is a critical piece of our r.landscape.evol script (GRASS
Addons/LandDyn) that models long-term surface process dynamics. I sincerely
hope that we can solve any licensing issues or have it replaced with a
better module. There is nothing else in the GRASS repertoire that actually
replaces it.

Michael


On 10/19/07 9:16 PM, "Dylan Beaudette" <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for keeping track of this useful but sometimes troublesome
> module. I am very interested in the potential for modern watershed
> analysis via a 3-rd party package like terrastream.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dylan
> 
> On 10/19/07, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> I will try to contact Laura and see whether she has any plans for
>> maintaining it and
>> changing the license. If not, I suggest to remove it, although we
>> will lose
>> the multiple flow direction flow routing (maybe it could be added to
>> r.watershed?)
>> and the capability to process larger DEMs (not possible with
>> r.watershed).
>> 
>> There is a new system available called terrastream with many new
>> additional
>> options and Pfaffstetter-code based watershed hierarchy output, which
>> is better and
>> faster and can be run as GRASS module, but users will have to
>> download and compile
>> it by themselves - link can be provided on wiki add-on list.
>> The code is huge, C++ and would be hard to maintain within GRASS.
>> 
>> so give me few days to see whether I can get in touch with Laura and
>> we can then
>> do what will be most appropriate,
>> 
>> Helena
>> 
>> Helena Mitasova
>> Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
>> 1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
>> Raleigh NC 27695
>> http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I must have missed this thread at the time:
>>> 
>>> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-April/022612.html
>>> 
>>> I've just noticed that r.terraflow has its own licence which isn't
>>> compatible with the GPL (advertising clause), so we shouldn't be
>>> providing binaries.
>>> 
>>> Ideally, we should have an --enable-nongpl switch so that people don't
>>> trip over this accidentally. Or, better still, just remove all non-GPL
>>> code.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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