[GRASS-web] Questions about GRASS GIS license

[Moritz Lennert]

Hi Cristina,

As the license used for GRASS GIS is the GPL, you can just look at the general documentation concerning that license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

If I understand your use case correctly, this is relevant to you: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL.

IANAL, but as far as I know using output of GRASS GIS commands does not violate the GPL.

May I ask what license the UPV software is under? I can only encourage any code to be under a free license, and university code in particular, knowing that its production is generally funded by public money.

Best wishes,
Moritz


4 janv. 2023 13:46:36 Cristina Alemany Lazaro <calemany at i2t.upv.es>:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> My name is Cristina Alemany, Technology Transfer Manager at the Universitat Politècnica de València.
> 
> Some of our researchers develop software that needs to call GRASS GIS for work.
> 
> We do not develop commands or sentences that can be part of or included in GRASS GIS, but our code calls to GRASS GIS commands that return data to the UPV code. The end user is responsible for having GRASS installed on their computer for the UPV software to work.
> 
> After reading your Copyright and Licensing Information[https://grass.osgeo.org/about/license/] page, we have doubts about how it affects our software.
> 
> We understand that the license affects developments to implement new language commands or modify or redistribute existing ones inside the GRASS GIS source code.
> 
> But, Does this license also affect the use of data obtained with GRASS GIS in external software?
> 
> We look forward to hearing back from you and would appreciate your advice.
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