Well, explicitly naming the LGPL and any other GPL compatible license pretty much opens things up. https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
Doug On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Signell, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > Check this commit 8 minutes ago: > > https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/commit/0c27016a775b5f01f3feb901874a5a45ed9aab1a > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4 October 2015 at 00:07, Craig Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2015-10-02 19:19, Kurt Schwehr wrote: > >> > >> Why yes :). Slashdot... > >> > >> The scuttlebutt on Slashdot was about how this format is D.O.A. because > the > >> reference library is GPLv3-only, which is incompatible with everything > else. > > > > > > They have a reason/plan for that: > > > > "FLIF is currently licensed under the GNU GPL v3+. However, when the > > project is more mature, we > > (Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille, the primary authors of FLIF) > > will want to release it under a more permissive license." > > > > https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > > -- > Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 > USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. > Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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