Hi John, Thanks for your response. I guess my next question is how does the community contribute to your project. Please respond to this mailing list so others can learn of your project. Don't take my questions the wrong way: that we are discussing your project on this OSGeo list is great for your project's visibility.
-jeff OSGeo President On 2014-05-03, 5:32 PM, John Lindsay wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Thank you for your response to my posting on the OSGeo listserv. I think that > there might be some confusion though. The Whitebox GAT project is in the open > source realm. It's been developed using the GNU GPL licence and the source > code is available from a public repository on google code that supports SVN > versioning. You're always welcome to download and modify all of the code, > which is also viewable from the internet. In fact, if you are running > Whitebox on your machine, you don't even need to download the source code > from the repo...a large proportion of the code comes with the executable and > is viewable using the 'View Code' button on each of the tools. This is a part > of what I refer to as open-access software. There is a listserv for Whitebox > users, although it's true that you need to sign up for it to post a > question...that's a restriction that University puts on the listserv I'm > afraid and I suspect it has to do with spam more than anything. I'm a strong > proponent of open-sou r ce software. > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
