That's my understanding of how the license works, for what its
worth :) But there is a risk right now ... one thing that came to
light at the last MUM was from the Apache Foundation experience. As
things are right now with MapServer, it is quite possible that
someone could contribute code that is not theirs to contribute, or
claim that MapServer uses code that it has no right to. This would
lead to a lawsuit from some third party claiming that MapServer uses
proprietary code which would tie us up in a legal battle for the
right to use MapServer (think SCO vs Linux). The Apache Foundation
provides a legal framework to protect against this type of thing. I
believe that this is one of the things that the MapServer foundation
should provide to projects under its umbrella.
Paul
On 29-Nov-05, at 1:32 PM, Charlton Purvis wrote:
Hi, folks:
Although there continues to be an open source spirit surrounding
the code
amid the launch of a MS Foundation, I'd like to ask for
clarification re.
the license of the MS code as it stands now.
If for whatever reason a company like Autodesk (or I guess it would
have to
be the Foundation) wanted to slap some kind of non-open source
license on
the code, is it true that the current code we call MapServer in its
current
state will always remain covered under the license below?
Basically I'm
trying to make sure that a shop can't somehow repossess something
that was
originally OS thus preventing folks from using it like it's being
used now.
Charlton
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