Greetings all: I raised concerns about geoserver's GPL licensing on the IRC channel today. Given the licensing terms for GPL I could not write a plugin for a WPS service or their own OWS without having to share the source-code back to the community. While I fully support having to share my source if I distribute updates to the core geoserver architecture, I know my company would not support use of geoserver if we had to share the source code for a plugin. This would hinder my ability to use geoserver at my company, and I would imagine many other consulting companies. Jody mentioned GPL+Classpath exception and given the proposal I read this seems to make sense. Other than that I might ask that you consider LGPL'ing geoserver. I really want to use the product on projects here but other than "out of the box" scenarios, I will not be able to use geoserver. Thanks Steve
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