[GRASSLIST:1522] Re: creating a desktop GIS application using GRASS

[Radim Blazek]

On Saturday 27 September 2003 04:53, Glynn Clements wrote:
> It doesn't encourage new contributors to make their contributions
> available to us. Someone writing proprietary extensions could use
> LGPL'd code without providing anything in return.

Any proprietary extension higly depends on success of the base system,
so they _have_ to fix and improve the libraries.
There is also indirect effect, they bring new GRASS users
and the number of contributors is in a relation to the number of users.


Radim