[OSGeo-Standards] [OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the update Martin. Let me know if I can help.

Landon

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Martin Isenburg <martin.isenburg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Landon,
>
> We must be on the same clock. Just yesterday I inquired via LinkedIn with
> the managing editor, Roland Mangold (cc-ed).
>
> "Hello Roland, has the rebuttal to the "Open Source Mania" article been
> published in the meantime? Was hoping to see you at ELMF / Capturing
> Reality ... Regards, Martin"
>
> the response was
>
> "Hi Martin ...its being reviewed by Marc and Allen Cheves ...they are the
> owners of LiDAR Magazine ..."
>
> This could be bad news as usually these kind of publications are always
> looking for interesting content ... so letting a few magazines go by for
> this well edited article by Oliver seems odd.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Landon Blake <
> sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did we ever hear back from the guys at LIDAR Magazine about publishing a
>> response?
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to.
>>> Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some
>>> factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond?
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <
>>> johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
>>>> <martin.isenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was
>>>> > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by
>>>> Lewis
>>>> > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer
>>>> discretion
>>>> > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD
>>>> > attack:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are
>>>> false.
>>>> " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
>>>> launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed"
>>>> not true
>>>>
>>>> "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which
>>>> you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded
>>>> your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
>>>> patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software
>>>> Foundation for free distribution."
>>>>
>>>> Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You
>>>> don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is
>>>> the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL.
>>>>
>>>> I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack
>>>> on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software
>>>> Foundation Europe to help write a response?
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Johan
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>>>
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