[GRASS-PSC] Re: [GRASS-dev] r30246 - grass/trunk/lib/gis

[Hamish]

> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:21:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Hamish
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] r30246 - grass/trunk/lib/gis
> To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> Glynn Clements wrote:
> > If you don't understand copyright, consult a lawyer.
> 
> Ok,
> 
> just added on the wiki site:
>   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Development#GRASS_License
> 
> a link to the Software Freedom Law Center's "Legal Issues Primer for
> Open Source and Free Software Projects":
>   http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html
> 
> 
> as for the thread, I think it's important to focus on the purpose of
> the --script module switch, ie to create a wrapper script template.
> For that I think it's a good idea to set useful defaults and
> <your name here> examples. It is important that any donated addon
> script contains sufficient copyright & license info, as without
> that it is essentially useless. So anything we can do to encourage
> the author to consider that is a good thing. It is easier for the
> lay-devel to see & remove the GPL boiler plate than to think to add
> it. Make it easy to do the right thing.
> 
> 
> as for "the grass devel team" not being a legal entity- I wonder how
> closely that phrase can be related to the OSGeo Foundation. Now that
> GRASS is an official OSGeo project, presumably the GRASS PSC and/or
> the "GRASS GIS Project" has some amount of formal identity.
> 
> And so "(c) the grass devel team" is a descriptive term which, in
> context, is short for "(c) the authors of the GRASS GIS Project, as
> represented by the GRASS PSC - a subsidiary of the OSGeo Foundation".
> The devels are the authors, and it is natural for the authors of a
> work to hold the copyright. As the exact meaning of "authors" is
> controlled via our RFC2 SVN commit access policies it isn't as
> vague as it might appear on first reading.
> 
> 
> Hamish
>
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