[GRASS-user] Questions about GRASS license and other more restrictive licenses

[rabotin]

Hello all,
I've got a question concerning the license of GRASS.
I'm working for a public french research center (INRA : French National 
Institute for Agricultural Research) ; we have developped a series of 
scripts in shell and perl languages for GRASS.
These procedures are made for an informatic platform which is able to 
download under a license more restrictive than GPL license .
And these procedures for GRASS will be accessible for download under 
this license too.
So my question is : is this kind of license (a license more restrictive 
than GPL license) compatible with developing shell scripts for GRASS (as 
GRASS license is GPL license) or not ?
Thanks for any informations you can provide

Here you can read the following lines in the license provided with the 
informatic platform (and this license will be the same for these GRASS 
scripts) :

2) License of the software
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a) INRA grants to You by this agreement a non-exclusive, world-wide and
royalty-free license to use the software to the end described hereunder
in the domain of the license, as long as You will comply with the terms
and conditions of this agreement.
b) You are authorised to download, install, execute the software on your
computer within the limit of one license for one computer (one hard
disk).
c) Except specific and written agreement of INRA, You are not allowed
to download, install or execute the software on a server.
d) You are not authorised to rent, sell, sublease, distribute, assign,
transfer, license, sublicense or otherwise share the software or one of
INRA’s rights on the software.
e) You are authorised to make a back-up copy of the software provided
You will not use it on any else computer. You are responsible of the
physical security of this copy and of the software.
f) You may personalize the set up of the software or extend its
functions. As well, You may translate, adapt, fix, modify the software
when theses acts are necessary for the use of the software in accordance
with this agreement.
g) INRA reserves the right to correct errors and to determine the
specific forms to which the following acts will be submitted:
The copy of the source code of the software or the translation of this
code are allowed when they are essential for the good working order of
the software with other softwares and when they are essential for the
use of the software in the domain of the license.
Furthermore, You are not authorized to reverse engineer, disassemble or
decompile the software.
Necessary information for good working order with other softwares is
available by INRA, without implying as regard to INRA any undertaking
to supply any assistance or services associated with the software.
h) You are not authorised to extract (that is transfer permanently or
temporarily) whole or a part of the content of the software (data) onto
an other medium, by any mean and in any form. Moreover, you are neither
authorised to re-use (that is to put at the public’s disposal) whole or
a part of the content of the software (data) whatever the form may be.
i) Your are allowed to produce supplementary modules for the software,
to improve or adapt the software provided however that the use of these
modules, supplementary versions, improvements, additions or upgrades
will be used in accordance with this agreement and strictly in the
domain of the licence.
In particular, You undertake to communicate these improvements or
modules to INRA and to allow INRA to use them for its own research
purposes.
If the improvements or modules are dependant upon the software
(according to code de la propriété intellectuelle), You may not disclose
or transfer them to third parties without the prior and written consent
of INRA on the forms of this distribution.
If the improvement or modules are not dependant upon the software
(according to code de la propriété intellectuelle), You may disclose
and transfer them to third parties, provided You indemnify and hold
harmless INRA with respect to any suit, claim or proceeding brought by
a third party.

Michael Rabotin

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Michaël Rabotin
Ingénieur d'étude en géomatique

Laboratoire d'étude des Interactions Sol, Agrosystème et Hydrosystème
UMR LISAH SupAgro-INRA-IRD
Bat. 24
2 place Viala
34060 Montpellier cedex 1 
FRANCE

Téléphone :  33 (0)4 99 61 23 85
Secrétariat : 33 (0)4 99 61 22 61
Fax : 33 (0)4 67 63 26 14
E-mail : rabotin at supagro.inra.fr

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