Although I am not a license guru, I feel like we should figure out if there is a legal way to integrate with restrictive licensing, and then advertise this prominently (or at least somewhere on our wiki)...
...unless there is some reason why we wouldn't want GeoServer used in these cases? Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org stumit63 wrote: > Hi, > > I have come across this a number of times. If you have VS Studio 6 or later, > check out the license agreement. It prohibits distribution of any > application built using VS with any application that is (to use Microsoft's > term) virally licensed. According to Bill, that includes GPL, LGPL and GNU > amongst others. Interestingly, if you research into it, they do not include > the BSD license in that term. > > Cheers > Stuart > > > Andrea Aime-4 wrote: >> See here: >> http://www.nabble.com/help-with-converting-Geoserver-site-to-Mapserver-td20919019.html >> >> "Our organization has been putting the finishing touches on an >> application that is supposed to be released by the end of the year. >> Unexpectedly, it did not pass license review, because it used Geoserver, >> which is GPL-licensed. " >> >> Isn't this really crazy? >> Cheers >> Andrea >> >> -- >> Andrea Aime >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org >> Expert service straight from the developers. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, >> Nevada. >> The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help >> pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
