> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:21:54 -0800 (PST) > From: Hamish > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] r30246 - grass/trunk/lib/gis > To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org > > Glynn Clements wrote: > > If you don't understand copyright, consult a lawyer. > > Ok, > > just added on the wiki site: > http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Development#GRASS_License > > a link to the Software Freedom Law Center's "Legal Issues Primer for > Open Source and Free Software Projects": > http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html > > > as for the thread, I think it's important to focus on the purpose of > the --script module switch, ie to create a wrapper script template. > For that I think it's a good idea to set useful defaults and > <your name here> examples. It is important that any donated addon > script contains sufficient copyright & license info, as without > that it is essentially useless. So anything we can do to encourage > the author to consider that is a good thing. It is easier for the > lay-devel to see & remove the GPL boiler plate than to think to add > it. Make it easy to do the right thing. > > > as for "the grass devel team" not being a legal entity- I wonder how > closely that phrase can be related to the OSGeo Foundation. Now that > GRASS is an official OSGeo project, presumably the GRASS PSC and/or > the "GRASS GIS Project" has some amount of formal identity. > > And so "(c) the grass devel team" is a descriptive term which, in > context, is short for "(c) the authors of the GRASS GIS Project, as > represented by the GRASS PSC - a subsidiary of the OSGeo Foundation". > The devels are the authors, and it is natural for the authors of a > work to hold the copyright. As the exact meaning of "authors" is > controlled via our RFC2 SVN commit access policies it isn't as > vague as it might appear on first reading. > > > Hamish > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >
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