I came across a quote[1] today complaining that the license for OpenLayers is not hard to find. I went to the page myself to check it out, and it does seem like a problem we should attend to. Most other open source projects will have very clear links to the license from the homepage, but we do not.
We should probably do the same, and as long as we're counting ponies, it would probably be a handy thing to have a "license FAQ" page where we explain what the deal is with the license and how to use it, etc. We could even have some "case studies" or "testimonials" sections of how different people have dealt with the license. --e [1] "For that matter, if you are working in a commercial setting (you said the word "client" so I assume you might be), you also have the labor/legal cost of parsing the various licensing agreements of the different bits and pieces you have chosen to integrate to see if you can even use those "open source" bits in your commercial application. That is sometimes not so easy, as I invite anyone who is not familiar with OpenLayers to see for themselves: go to the http://www.openlayers.org/ site and see for yourself just how long it takes you to even find a license let alone how long it takes you to figure out exactly the limits of commercial activity you can do with it. This is not easy for someone completely new to that module. I realize that giving the faintest flying hoot about licensing is not something that script kiddies care about, but it is something that responsble folks like James and you, the gentle reader, and I care about.]" -- from http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/02/05/bringing-open-source-gis-into-an-esri-shop/#comment-33109 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
