+1 Paul On 9-Oct-07, at 12:53 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> During the FOSS4G conference, the available members of the PSC sat > down > with our incubation mentor (Howard Butler) and Frank Warmadam, > president > of OSGeo, to discuss completing OSGeo incubation of OpenLayers. > > It was decided that the easiest path forward for all involved would be > to change the license on all OpenLayers materials -- including all > future releases -- to be licensed under the license that MetaCarta has > been calling the 'Clear BSD'. The Clear BSD is essentially the BSD > license, with an extra clause that states that no patent rights are > granted with the license. > > In the past, we had posted to the dev/users lists about changing the > repository license from the MetaCarta-specific one to the Clear BSD. > (This had been discussed internally on the PSC list, then made > public.) > Now, we are having the same discussion, but instead of changing > just the > repository license, we are proposing to change the release license as > well. > > Changing this license will allow us to remove all MetaCarta-specific > aspects of the release process. It has no (known) change in the actual > licensing restrictions. Changing the release process allows us to > proceed with OSGeo incubation. > > As a reminder, for those who haven't been paying attention, an > explanation of MetaCarta's need for the "Clear BSD" license is > available > from http://labs.metacarta.com/license-explanation.html , and has (in > bold) the changes in the license text. (They're pretty minor.) > > This RFC is a request for any comments on the intention to change, for > all future releases of OpenLayers, the release license to be the Clear > BSD license, and (since the repository license will then be the same) > to thereafter refer to it only as the "Clear BSD" license in the code, > docs, etc. > > I am in favor (+1) of making this change as soon as the 2.5 release is > out, making 2.5 the last release shipped under the official BSD > license, > and at that time making the previously proposed changes to the SVN > layout in order to take into account the licensing change. > > (PSC Members: I know we voted on this on the PSC list, but I'd like to > have a public vote as part of our goal of moving PSC list > discussions to > the public view, so even if you feel like you voted, please vote again > :)) > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
