Fwd: [GRASS-PSC] Fwd: [GRASSweb-list] GRASS GIS and Apple's Mac Products Guide

[Scott Mitchell]

Good point, it's really only the binaries that count here, so I'll  
pass this on to the three "serious work on binaries" people I can  
think of...

Cheers,
Scott

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> From: Brad Douglas <rez at touchofmadness.com>
> Date: 2 November 2006 10:04:34 GMT-05:00
> To: Scott Mitchell <smitch at mac.com>
> Cc: GRASS-PSC at grass.itc.it
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-PSC] Fwd: [GRASSweb-list] GRASS GIS and Apple's  
> Mac Products Guide
> Reply-To: rez at touchofmadness.com
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:33 -0500, Scott Mitchell wrote:
>> Well, GRASS is definitely "Universal", but I don't know if we care
>> whether Apple's logo is applied or not.  I suppose it can't hurt to
>> be included in promotional material.  But I don't know if there's
>> anything in the license that is involved that we might care about - I
>> started reading it but licensing legalese is pretty high on my
>> personal boredom list.
>
> It certainly wouldn't hurt to have an "Apple blessing".
>
>> And then there's the question of who could sign the license
>> agreement.  Maybe after becoming full members of OSGEO this would be
>> easier?
>
> My suggestion is that the maintainer of the binary packaging for OSX
> sign the license agreement as an individual, not a specific
> representative of GRASS GIS.  I've read the license agreement and I
> don't see anything to be concerned about.  It gives you a free license
> to use their logo for 1 year upon their approval approve.  If, for  
> some
> reason, there is an issue, simply terminate the agreement and quit  
> using
> the logo (or fight it out in court in Santa Clara, CA).
>
>
> -- 
> Brad Douglas <rez touchofmadness com>                    KB8UYR/6
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