[Incubator] Code Review

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> In general I think that we should handle such issues rather strictly to
> avoid later complications. At least, files in question should be tagged
> (to make them easily 'find'able) or extracted into a non-free directory
> or so.

Markus,

It is my intent that all potential issues should be documented in the
"provenance" review document and that in all cases individual file
headers should include notes on issues.

  > That's why we took LZW compression out of GRASS *although' there
> was explicit permission to use it which was given before it became
> a patent (AFAIK). We substituted it with ZLIB compression which was
> a major pain as all users had to migrate all their integer raster maps...

Ugg, a particularly ugly situation.

> But I am no legal expert (is Rich reading this list?)

Yes, Rich is on this list.

Best regards,
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