[GRASSLIST:2676] Re: grasslinks for grass5

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Len,

just read the license for GRASSLinks 3.1 I could find:
	http://ippc2.orst.edu/glinks/gl_copyright.html

It is not Free Software and therefor _not compatible_
with the license of GRASS. 
You cannot use it with modern GRASS version.

If we need GRASSLinks 3.1 functionality somebody has to reimplement it.  :(

| GRASSLinks Copyright Notice and Disclaimer
| 
| Copyright (c) 1994-98
| Susan M. Huse and The Regents of the University of California
| All rights reserved.
| 
| Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and 
| its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, 
| without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, 
| provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the 
| following three paragraphs appear in all copies. 
| 
| Permission to incorporate this software into commercial products may 
| be obtained by contacting the University of California.

It looks like GRASSLinks 2.5 is under GPL and can be used with 
modern GRASS versions, according to:

http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grasslinks/copyright.html

| GRASSLinks Copyright Information
| Copyright (c) 1994 Susan M. Huse
| (Based on the GNU General Public License, 2/1989)

I have not fully compared it to the GNU GPL v2 which would be
necessary beofre using it with GRASS under GNU GPL.
Additionally I do not have a copy of the GRASSLinks 2.5 source code.
So I cannot help Alex.

Regards,
	Bernhard


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:16:29AM -0800, Len Coop wrote:
> I have begun some significant improvements to Berkeley/Regis
> GRASSLinks 3.1 (single perl script), including the new
> features/abilities listed below. I am planning to continue these
> improvements for at least a year and am contemplating writing
> major grants to support the effort. I have not "packaged" the
> current changes yet but could hopefully get to that fairly soon.
> Eventually I would like to incorporate the additional features of
> GRASSLinks 2.5, which remains shell script based, and can be seen at
> http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grasslinks/
> 
> The Regis Perl script Glinks 3.1 is better engineered/programed
> than the many small shell scripts approach, IMO, and find is has
> great potential for updates (unless you dont like Perl, but I do
> like Perl).
> 
> The problem with Glinks 3.1 (
> http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/glinks/ ), is that installation is
> rather tricky. Making it easier is a #1 priority. My own
> in-development GRASSLinks site is at
> http://ippc2.orst.edu/glinks 
> 
> Regis has not done much with GRASSLinks since 1998 or so and seems
> to be working more with ARCIMS these days.
> 
> I am thinking that future GRASSLinks development could be shared
> via sourceforge.

> > I'm looking for the source code and documentation for the latest and
> > greatest grasslinks for grass5, I'd greatly appreciate any direction as to
> > where I can find this.

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