[GRASSLIST:2683] Re: grasslinks for grass5

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Patty,

Len is correct that it should be easy to select a Free Software
license for GRASSLinks.

We just need the license called "new" or "modified" BSD license.
The one Len quoted containts the obnoxios advertisment clause, which
need to be avoided. I assume that Sue would also agree the the GNU
GPL as she put this on GRASSLinks 2.5 once if my information is
correct.


Best,
	Bernhard
ps: I don't know how good my e-mail connectivity will be, because I
am leaving for the GRASS developers workshop tomorrow.



On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:56:37AM -0800, Len Coop wrote:
> Hi Patty, 
> 
> I agree with Bernhard and the recommendations of the UC Berkeley Advisory Committee on Information
> Technology Sub-committee on Policies, report at
> http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~acitpo/working.html 
> homepage at 
> http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~acitpo/
> 
> which recommends under section 3.2.2 of the report, a range of copyright models for Univ. Authors,
> including this one I quote:
> 
> "An agreement permitting free redistribution and use for any purpose, provided that the copyright
> notice is attached and
> acknowledgment is made. An example of such an agreement is the standard licence of the University of
> California
> Board of Regents. [36]"
> 
> 36 is a footnote to this link (The Berkeley License):
> http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~acitpo/copyright/berkeley.html
> 
> also quoted here in full:
> "Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
> provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
> duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
> advertising materials, and other materials related to such
> distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
> by the University of California, Berkeley.  The name of the
> University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
> from this software without specific prior written permission.
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
> WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
> 
> Which is what Bernhard and I would like you to change the GRASSLinks license to.
> 
> So, to summarize, UCB recommends a range of copyrights for authors, 
> including the one above, which coincides with Bernhard's and my recommendations.
> 
> If the original author of GRASSLinks 3.1 (Sue Huse), and the current
> maintainers of GRASSLinks (such as yourself), agree, you could change
> the copyright to this one (or perhaps adopt another recommended license,
> refer to report sec 3.2.2, linked above. These alternative licenses include
> the GPL and the Artistic license, the former used now by GRASS, the latter used by Perl (the
> language GRASSLinks is written in). The Berkeley license would make sense, is the most free (least
> restrictive), and be in full accord with the UCB recommendations.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Len
> 
> Patricia Frontiera wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Len,
> > 
> > I don't mean to be dense, but could you send me an email and state
> > briefly what exactly you/Bernhard want to do with the software and then at
> > the beginning of the semester I'll check with a UCB copyright
> > administrator to see if that's ok.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > patty
> 
> -- 
> Leonard Coop
> Research Associate
> Entomology Dept & Integrated Plant Protection Center
> 2046 Cordley
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis OR 97331-2907
> Phone 541-737-5523
> Fax   541-737-3080
> http://osu.orst.edu/dept/entomology/coopl

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