Slight historical note: Way back when (1996) the Open Software Foundation merged with X/Open and became the Open Group: http://www.opengroup.org/ . Only 20 years of date.
Cheers Carl On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Carl Reed, PhD Carl Reed and Associates Mobile: 970-402-0284
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