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The GRASS Geographical Information SystemThe GRASS Geographical Information SystemPosted Feb 11, 2005 9:37 UTC (Fri) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563)Parent article: The GRASS Geographical Information System
I am glad that the Americans have had such a good "mind for sharing", so the state's development projects, more than once, has been done under the GPL license. I wish that european countries (incl. my own, Denmark) would learn from that. Afterall, when it's paid for by us all, it should be accessible by us all. And putting it under GPL, also ensures that developing countries could make use of it, and thus help their own infrastructure, which would be a very good way of making contributions to developing countries, without it costing a dime more.
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The GRASS Geographical Information System Posted Feb 18, 2005 18:42 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link] I am glad that the Americans have had such a good "mind for sharing", so the state's development projects, more than once, has been done under the GPL license.Originally they did not use the GNU GPL. The U.S.A. have a long standing tradition to have information that were aquired with federal money to be put in the public domain. Public domain is only possible in some part of the world and means: Nobody is the author and there is no copyright protection. US CERL published GRASS as public domain, later the development team (under the lead of Markus Neteler, Hannover, Germany as that time) used their contributions to claim copyright again and license the GRASS version under the GNU GPL clearing up a long standing license confusion making GRASS clearly Free Software.
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