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Commercial Support - GRASS Sponsoring[Commercial GRASS support | Sponsor GRASS Development ]Do you need commercial and professional GRASS support?The companies listed here are offering commercial support to GRASS GIS users. This covers GRASS usage and GRASS related programming. The companies support the GRASS Development Team with bugfixes, new GRASS modules and improvements (see GRASS authors). These links are provided as a service to the community only, the GRASS team can not officially endorse patronage.
If you are interested to support GRASS development, please let us know!
GRASS GIS is released under GNU General Public License. Perhaps you ask: Why use free software? If interested, you may read the article "Why Software Should Not Have Owners" by Richard Stallman. To distinguish between "Free software", "Commercial software" and "Proprietary software" please read on here. Sponsor GRASS Development!Most of GRASS Development was/is done by volunteers who are spending their free time on this project. Other (major) functionality has been funded by grants to universities for certain projects, which products were finally integrated into GRASS. Many governmental organizations have been and are sponsoring GRASS.However, perhaps you want some special functionality. Currently, the best is to hire somebody to actually add the functionality you need. Contract for the development directly with the stipulation that functionality be released and integrated into the Free Software GRASS source tree under GNU GPL. Students who are interested in GRASS anyway are often happy to get some funding for their hobby. You can also hire professionals (see list above, those companies are already involved in GRASS development or directly contact the GRASS developers). Consider to contact National GRASS user groups if they have ideas to accept GRASS fundings. It is likely that programmers will add the desired functionality for you. Other GRASS users can benefit as GRASS development is done similiar to many other Free Software projects: If the enhancement is useful for a wide audience, it is likely to be integrated into the GRASS main code.
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