[GRASS-user] GNU GPL version 3 and Grass code

[Patton, Eric]

Patton, Eric wrote:
>> With the GNU GPL version 3 scheduled to be released tomorrow, are there any
>> plans on adopting this license for Grass?

>Eric,

>Has it been approved by OSI yet?  OSGeo has taken the position that project
>code will only be released under OSI approved licenses, and so I think
>project adoption of GPL3 should wait for that process to be completed
>by OSI.

>I asked OSI (via one director) about it a few months ago and they hadn't
>started any serious review at that time.

Best regards,
-- 

>From what I can see on the OSI site, they haven't approved GPL3 yet, but that's not surprising given it hasn't been officially released yet. It might be something worth keeping on eye on if it's the intention of the developers to adopt GPL3 at some point.

~ Eric.