[GRASS-PSC] Re: [GRASS-dev] FWD Re: [Gdal-dev] GDAL on koders.com

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Scott Mitchell wrote:
>> So it SEEMS fine to me from that point of view, BUT I'm not a lawyer, 
>> and have no idea what a lawyer would think, nor whether, as Markus 
>> suggests, maybe the language wouldn't be enough to be interpreted as 
>> a transfer of copyright anyway.
>>
>> Frank, are you still on this list?  Did you pursue this at all from a 
>> GDAL/OGR point of view?
>
> Scott,
>
> I did not look into any of this.  To be honest, I only very dimly 
> remember
> possibly having submitted GDAL to the koders.com web site.
>
> Copyright cannot be assigned at the click of a button so I don't see that
> there is any risk  of an impact on the GDAL code.  If the concern 
> remains,
> just have someone with no special rights over the GRASS code do the
> submission.
>
> Best regards,

I'm not an expert of legal issues, but if the things that came out from 
this discussion are true (no way for koders.com to claim any copyrigth 
on the code) I agree with the submission.
I think it can help in GRASS diffusion.
Massimiliano

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