Hello, I am curious about the OSS license landscape in the geospatial open source community. Off the top of my head, these are the common licenses:
GPL (2.0,3.0,LGPL, Affero) Mozilla Public License 2.0 Apache MIT BSD 2 clause >From what I understand, Affero is the strictest, and MIT/BSD are the most permissive. MPL 2.0 requires users to share modifications to the MPL licensed source files themselves, but users can link to other proprietary files and not share that code.So, MPL encourages some sharing back to the community. MIT/BSD have no restrictions other than replicating the MIT/BSD license when code/binary is distributed. What types of licenses are most commonly used? Are there GPL applications/libraries in use, and if so, which ones ? Interested in hearing any feedback/comments/rants/personal experience with these licenses. Cheers, Aaron
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