[GRASS-user] licensing question: calling GRASS GIS modules via the grass.script API in an MIT/Apache licensed script ?

[Moritz Lennert]

Ping.

Anyone ?

Or a pointer to whom I could ask ?

Moritz

On 7/05/19 10:42, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We work with a company on a project where we use GRASS GIS to calculate
> accessibility indicators. The main output we provide is a Python script
> which calls GRASS GIS modules via the grass.script API. The company is
> willing to make this script free software, but would like to license it
> with a permissive license such as MIT or Apache.
> 
> I would think that calling GRASS GIS modules in a script does not
> automatically imply the script has to be GPL, but what about the use of
> the Python API ?
> 
> I would think that this case falls in the grey area described at [1] and
> have tendency to think that MIT/Apache license would be allowed.
> 
> Does anyone have a more informed opinion ?
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
>