Good call. Strategically good choice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Watry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] epiphany about the idea of the Foundation
> Being as this is a non-profit open source Foundation, I hope that we will > ask the other commercial Internet map software companies to join the > Foundation in the same manner as AutoDesk. > > This should include ESRI, Integraph, Microstation, MapInfo, DeLorme, etc etc > > Anyone who has a vested interest in Internet Mapping should be asked to > contribute and participate. If they opt not to - fine - but then they are on > record for choosing not to play > > But then the contributors could insure their other products were compatible > with MapServer(OS) and that it was compatible with their products. > > The two fold benefit to this is > 1. the foundation will not be concieved as a partner to Autodesk > 2. Autodesk or no other Commercial company will control the Foundation > > ______________________________________________________________ > Gary L. Watry > > GIS Coordinator > Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies > FSU / COAPS > Johnson Building, RM 215 > 2035 East Paul Dirac Drive > Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2840 > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lester Caine > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] current OS license > > 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. > > Borland tried it with Interbase, but Firebird is now freely available > and there is not a lot Borland can now do about it ;) > I am sure Autocad have a 'hidden agenda' but as long as there are free > versions of what ever is needed to provide a working system then there > will not be a problem. Anything commercial will have to be worth the > money to make any sales :) > > p.s. I am not seeing my posts to the list so if you get this Charlton > and it's not on the list please can you forward it :( > > -- > Lester Caine > ----------------------------- > L.S.Caine Electronic Services > Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc. >
