[Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Mon Mar 12 18:41:43 CET 2001


On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:10:23AM -0800, Adrian Custer wrote:
> On 09 Mar 2001 22:36:34 -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
> > Maybe a phrase would be enough to explain and make it clear.
> > My suggestion:
> > 
> > "You have the freedom to copy, study, change, and redistribute the Free GIS
> > Software and Free Geo-Data here indicated."

> be careful! Free-GIS should not make that claim. It's up to users to
> read licenses and decide for themselves what rights they have. Don't
> leave yourselves open to legal responsibilities. 

Well we _want_ to list Free Software and Data.
So it might be okay to put a small description of our intention up.
We cannot be held legally resonsible if our judgement of the
freedom of licenses is wrong for some reason.
So we have to make these two points, too.

	Bernhard


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