GRASS License Info

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:20:17AM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

> Perhaps the GRASS community can consider making the GRASS4.2 available
> under GPL and GRASS5.0 under a different licencing arrangement.
> As for the GRASS5.0 licence the "MySQL FREE PUBLIC LICENSE'', which
> is based on the "Aladdin FREE PUBLIC LICENSE.'' may be one option that
> could be considered.

Both licenses limit the right of the users so that companies
can live of the software. It is not free software.
And in GRASS case there is no company producing GRASS.

	Bernhard

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