License needed!

[Bruce Byars]

Yes,

We know this.  We are dealing with our university counsel
and are leaning toward GPL from our standpoint.  I will
be talking with counsel for GPL this week sometime and
expect to have this issue resolved in short order.

Bruce


Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> Sorry to bother you with that topic again,
> but the matter is of great importance for the GRASS community.
>
>         GRASS still does not come with a real license [1].
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>
> In a mail to the developers in May I explained the problems
> and suggested that GRASS should be clearly licensed as free software. [2]
> After a bit of discussion I formulated another pledge for this cause. [3]
> I received feedback from a significant number of people, which shared
> my concerns and views in that respect.
>
> The GRASS development team at least clearly stated that they own the
> copyright to GRASS, which is an improvement IIRC. But a license
> is still needed and it hurds GRASS and the community that it does not
> come with a clear free software license.
>
> Markus Neteler and Bruce Byar are well aware of the situation.
> The last I heard from it was that they work on the problem with legal
> help at Baylor. What is the status of this?
>
> In addressing this problem again with this mail, I hope bringing on more
> support for this topic. Any week that passes GRASS misses the chance
> to come with your favourite GNU/Linux distribution, may it me Mandrake,
> Debian or something else!
>
>         Bernhard
>
> [1]     http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/copyright.html
> [2]     http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~eicksch/GRASS-Help/msg02105.html
> [3]     http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~eicksch/GRASS-Help/msg02195.html
>
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> Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA.    (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
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> CEO Intevation GmbH  [A Free Software Company]
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