[GRASSLIST:5580] Re: [GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Hamish]

> > > First, GRASS has no grand tradition of open source in the GPL
> > > sense of open source. GRASS used to be in the public domain, and
> > > has only (relatively) recently been placed under open source
> > > constraints.
> >
> >"Open source constraints"?  Public domain software is open source
> >software.  Open Source comes under many licenses; not just the GPL.
> >See http://opensource.org/licenses/ .
> >  
> >
> I wasn't aware public domain software required the source code
> to be released...


miscommunication folks:
 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html



nothing more to see here, please move along....



Hamish