My comment about the web application was without it I don't see any license unrestrictions being very useful, because without at least some web support you can't run geoserver.
So the idea was to make web-app, and part of web-core GPL + classpath and leave all the other web modules GPL. This would give someone at least something runnable with the plugin system at their disposal, they would just get a blank UI starting it up. And yeah, output formats are tricky. If we want to keep WFS/WMS GPL that means someone would not be able to write a proprietary output format for geoserver. But if we make those modules LGPL/GPL+Classpath then we might as well make all of geoserver that. Jody Garnett wrote: >> Hmmm... I would prefer to keep the UI pure GPL. Usually my preference is: >> - LGPL for anything library-sh >> - GPL for anything that sounds like an application >> >> The web UI is application imho. We could have some bits of it in LGPL, >> like the base page classes and the raw components, but I'm quite -1 >> on having the catalog configuration pages go LGPL. > > We are talking GPL+Classpath Exception (not LGPL) but yeah I hear you. > I think the goal here is to allow modules to provide additional > configuration UI (not to hand over the catalog configuration pages). > >> Moved in a more central place, yes, turned in LGPL, hmmm... don't like >> that much. I mean, if we follow this line we end up turning LGPL significant >> portions of GeoServer, at that point we may as well change >> its license solid > > I am a bit confused as to how much of the code base we are talking > here; for dispatch we only need to relax the GPL on the interfaces we > are expecting others to implement; not on the implementation that > wires it all up and makes it sit up and beg for coffee? Same deal for > output formats... > > Jody -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
