License needed!

[Duncan Kinder]

I don't want to start a religious war here, but it could help clarify things
if we could establish (philosophically) what is wrong with the Berkeley
license.


The GPL is fine with me, and I agree with the fellow who said you need any
license now and worry about improving it later.  In particular, I would not
let the university lawyer slow things down too much given that the GNU
license never has been challenged in court, so he really doesn't have that
much by way of useful information to contribute  ( developing a new license
is a different matter.)

Regards,

Duncan C. Kinder
dckinder at mountain.net



----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Byars <Bruce_Byars at baylor.edu>
To: <grass at cecer.army.mil>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: License needed!


>
> 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].
> >         --------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA.
(www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
> > Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure
(ffii.org)
> > CEO Intevation GmbH  [A Free Software Company]
> >
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