> On Jan 21, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Sean Gillies <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1 from me.
> 
> Howard, I really appreciate how you're reminding us that what proprietary 
> vendors want is for GDAL to help distribute their software. Writing code that 
> works is the easy part. Getting it onto computers and getting people to use 
> it is the hard part.

+1

Yes, I think the distinction that matters most is not just that proprietary 
vendors are leveraging GDAL's distribution channel. It's that they attempt to 
explicitly or inadvertently externalize the costs of maintaining that 
distribution channel on the GDAL project itself. An open source developer who 
tosses something over the wall that a bunch of people including other 
developers find useful is doing something different than a vendor who is 
throwing their binary SDK-driven codebase up and over. This RFC provides a the 
latter expectations they will need to meet if they go forward. IMO, they are 
not so onerous either.

Howard



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