Victor--
We looked at many of the standard open source licenses, but the university
felt that we needed to be protected against the potential of someone
contributing copyrighted or otherwise unlicensed code to the project. As a
compromise, we have to vet any user-submitted modifications before we can
release them as part of the software.
It's not as open as say, Linux, but we feel it's a step in the right
direction. People can freely download, learn from, and modify our code for
their research. The license just prevents people from taking unfair
advantage (for instance, making one change to the program and then selling
the whole thing as their own).
Once we get a feel for how things are working and get some feedback from the
community, we may come to re-evaluate our license in the future. Perhaps we
will adopt something closer to more traditional licenses once the school is
more comfortable with the idea of (really) open source.
Thank you for your comments.
Best,
Nick
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Syntax2D: Open Source Spatial Analysis Software
Hello,
looks promising, all the tools in one place, and capability to extend!
The "open source" license isn't familiar with any of the ones i know (you
don't use none of the traditional open source licences around...) but it's a
jump in the right direction! Any of the programmer's on the list wants to
comment on the license? :-)
Good work, sorry i can't be at the workshop! :-(
Just for information on a previous email, regarding my adventures in
programming in Arcojects and VBA (Arcgis), me and my student coleagues
suceeded in making something work! It calculates control, connectivity,
total depth, mean depth and Global Integration! We will try to make local
integration also, if we have the time... Thanks for the help, specially to
Jorge Gil and Joćo Pinelo.
Have a good symposium,
Victor Ferreira
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