are you distributing GRASS? do you combine your scripts with GRASS and ship it as a single product? if so, the GPL applies and you have a choice of either distributing the entire package using GPL and GPL-compatible licenses, or not ship GRASS with it.
what is the nature of the informatic platform? the license below is clearly not GPL-compatible. Your scripts are by you, and so you own the copyright and can use, license & distribute those however you like; but as you do not hold copyright over the GRASS software you must respect the terms it comes with if you wish to distribute a bundled-GRASS to others. If you do not distribute GRASS (in whole or in part), then its license is irrelevant. regards, Hamish rabotin wrote: > I've got a question concerning the license of GRASS. > I'm working for a public french research center (INRA : > French National Institute for Agricultural Research) ; we > have developped a series of scripts in shell and perl > languages for GRASS. > These procedures are made for an informatic platform which > is able to download under a license more restrictive than > GPL license . > And these procedures for GRASS will be accessible for > download under this license too. > So my question is : is this kind of license (a license more > restrictive than GPL license) compatible with developing > shell scripts for GRASS (as GRASS license is GPL license) or > not ? > Thanks for any informations you can provide > > Here you can read the following lines in the license > provided with the informatic platform (and this license will > be the same for these GRASS scripts) : > > 2) License of the software > ========================== > a) INRA grants to You by this agreement a non-exclusive, > world-wide and > royalty-free license to use the software to the end > described hereunder > in the domain of the license, as long as You will comply > with the terms and conditions of this agreement. > b) You are authorised to download, install, execute the > software on your > computer within the limit of one license for one computer > (one hard disk). > c) Except specific and written agreement of INRA, You are > not allowed to download, install or execute the software on a server. > d) You are not authorised to rent, sell, sublease, > distribute, assign, > transfer, license, sublicense or otherwise share the > software or one of INRA’s rights on the software. > e) You are authorised to make a back-up copy of the > software provided > You will not use it on any else computer. You are > responsible of the > physical security of this copy and of the software. > f) You may personalize the set up of the software or extend its > functions. As well, You may translate, adapt, fix, modify > the software > when theses acts are necessary for the use of the software > in accordance with this agreement. > g) INRA reserves the right to correct errors and to determine the > specific forms to which the following acts will be submitted: > The copy of the source code of the software or the > translation of this > code are allowed when they are essential for the good > working order of > the software with other softwares and when they are > essential for the > use of the software in the domain of the license. > Furthermore, You are not authorized to reverse engineer, > disassemble or decompile the software. > Necessary information for good working order with other > softwares is > available by INRA, without implying as regard to INRA any > undertaking > to supply any assistance or services associated with the > software. > h) You are not authorised to extract (that is transfer > permanently or > temporarily) whole or a part of the content of the software > (data) onto > an other medium, by any mean and in any form. Moreover, you > are neither > authorised to re-use (that is to put at the public’s > disposal) whole or > a part of the content of the software (data) whatever the > form may be. > i) Your are allowed to produce supplementary modules for > the software, > to improve or adapt the software provided however that the > use of these > modules, supplementary versions, improvements, additions or > upgrades > will be used in accordance with this agreement and strictly > in the > domain of the licence. > In particular, You undertake to communicate these > improvements or > modules to INRA and to allow INRA to use them for its own > research > purposes. > If the improvements or modules are dependant upon the > software > (according to code de la propriété intellectuelle), You > may not disclose > or transfer them to third parties without the prior and > written consent > of INRA on the forms of this distribution. > If the improvement or modules are not dependant upon the > software > (according to code de la propriété intellectuelle), You > may disclose > and transfer them to third parties, provided You indemnify > and hold > harmless INRA with respect to any suit, claim or proceeding > brought by a third party. > > Michael Rabotin > > -- ********************************* > > Michaël Rabotin > Ingénieur d'étude en géomatique > > Laboratoire d'étude des Interactions Sol, Agrosystème et > Hydrosystème > UMR LISAH SupAgro-INRA-IRD > Bat. 24 > 2 place Viala > 34060 Montpellier cedex 1 FRANCE > > Téléphone : 33 (0)4 99 61 23 85 > Secrétariat : 33 (0)4 99 61 22 61 > Fax : 33 (0)4 67 63 26 14 > E-mail : [email protected] > > ********************************* > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
