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

[Michael Barton]

Given all the discussion, I also think that this is a good idea.

Michael
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> From: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:58:00 +0100
> To: GRASS-PSC <grass-psc at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-PSC] Re: [GRASS-dev] FWD Re: [Gdal-dev] GDAL on koders.com
> 
> 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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