[udig-devel] JGrass goes (mostly) LGPL - try II

[Jody Garnett]

That is great news; once we make the first download of your tools 
available to people you will see a lot more use ;-) We can include a mix 
of various licenses in our sample uDig application - it is just 
important to us that the framework parts (ie plugin extension points and 
interfaces is LGPL so people from all walks of life can contribute).

Andrea can you post this email as a news announcement on the uDig site? 
As you indicate this is an important step for JGrass.
Jody

Andrea Antonello wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> I tried to send this mail already a week ago but for some reason it
> didn't come through to the list. Time to check that it really didn't,
> to get buried under a pile of work, to get sick and well again and
> here I go for a second try (copy/paste from the first):
>
> Even if I was very offline since Victoria (two week of leftover
> work :)), some important things happened. I think the most important is
> the fact that a big chunk of the JGrass code will go LGPL.
> I really feel that we need to better integrate into the udig codebase
> at some point and, apart of actually writing code, that is the best way
> to get started. 
> So everything of JGrass that doesn't contain strict
> hydrological/geomorphological algorithms bound to the University
> department of Trento will be put from GPL to LGPL. That means for
> example that all the GRASS formats support as well as the Console and
> OpenMI and base GIS tools code will go LGPL. Actually it is easier to
> say what will not: the modules for analysis produced in cooperation
> with the university will stay GPL.
>
> This is an important move for us and I really hope that the
> udig/geotools/geoserver community will appreciate this change and be
> able to use some of our tools at some point.
>
> Ciao,
> Andrea
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