(cc grass-psc) On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:54:00AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Patton, Eric wrote: > > Patton, Eric wrote: > > > With the GNU GPL version 3 scheduled to be released tomorrow, are there > > > are plans on adopting this license for Grass? > > > > > > Frank Warmderdam wrote: > > > > Eric, > > > > Has it been approved by OSI yet? OSGeo has taken the position that > > > > project > > > > code will only be released under OSI approved licenses, and so I think > > > > project adoption of GPL3 should wait for that process to be completed > > > > by OSI. > > > > > > > > I asked OSI (via one director) about it a few months ago and they hadn't > > > > started any serious review at that time. > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > From what I can see on the OSI site, they haven't approved GPL3 > > yet, but that's not surprising given it hasn't been officially > > released yet. It might be something worth keeping on eye on if it's > > the intention of the developers to adopt GPL3 at some point. > > > > ~ Eric. > > Is copyright on GRASS code held by individual authors?
In general yes. > Or is the copyright transferred to the GRASS project itself > when code is submitted? No. We don't have copyright transfer. This was discussed a lot last year in terms of an OSGeo contribution agreement. > Or, to put it another way, does adopting a different liscence > require the concent of every single contributor, or merely > a decision by the project steering committee? As far as I understand it, it requires the concent of every single contributor *if* the new license is not compliant with GPL. Note that most (all?) code contains GPL >= V2. But GRASS-PSC is certainly involved in the decision. > nick > [ too long privacy statemente removed ] Markus _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
