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Press Release
October 23, 1999
GRASS Development Team
GRASS GIS Released Under GNU General Public License!
Geographic Resources Analysis and Support System (GRASS) Geographic
Information System (GIS) has entered a new era with its resurrection by the
GRASS Development Team. The Team, headquartered at Baylor University, is
made up of researchers at Baylor and University of Hannover, Germany, with
cooperators at the University of Illinois. GRASS is a full-featured GIS that
runs on all Unix and Linux operating systems, thus making it a powerful tool
for research groups.
The GRASS GIS, which was originally developed by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, found a new home for support in the GRASS Development Team in
1997. Since that time, GRASS has enjoyed resurgence in popularity around the
globe. However, the problem of licensing was never quite resolved. Until
today.
Since GRASS was initially developed by the U. S. Government, it was
considered Public-Domain. However, the GRASS Development Team is not
government funded and so needed a way to protect the developers and license
the GRASS GIS software.
As of October 25, 1999, GRASS is released under the terms of the Gnu Public
License (GPL). The GPL is part of the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit
group that licenses most software developed as "freeware" by universities
and individuals. This makes GRASS the first fully featured GIS that is
released worldwide under the GPL.
For more information, contact the GRASS Development Team via email at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit their websites at
http://grass.baylor.edu/ and
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
GRASS Development Team
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