On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
