Can we negotiate for the binding to be made available as LGPL?

Jody

On 04/09/2009, at 8:09 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> Hi all,
> nowadays Sextante is keeping various versions of the GeoTools/Sextante
> bindings in its own repository: they have a gt2.2.x version, a gt2.5.x
> version, a gt2.4.x version and a gt2.6.x version
>
> I feel this is kind of wrong, imho the relationship should be othe
> other way around? I would also feel more comfortable maintaing those
> bindings in the gt2 code base.
>
> But there is a catch: Sextante license is GPL. So that would made  
> those
> bindings GPL.
>
> License wise I would have a clean way out: keep the bindings in
> GeoServer, which is GPL'd as well. But it feels kind of stealing
> to GeoTools, such bindings make perfectly sense at the library level.
>
> Suggestions?
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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