I can't see the license of MapServer changing (modified MIT X11 I
think) so my guess is that this type of sharing will only happen as
the licenses permit it. The LGPL is certainly less restrictive that
the GPL so libraries of code could probably be shared if they are
used as a whole piece, but copying only some lines of code from the
code base would probably be against the license.
On 30-Nov-05, at 4:59 PM, Attila Csipa wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 19:27, P Kishor wrote:
It is still not clear what exactly will Autodesk's codebase
contribute
to the MapServer codebase, if anything at all. Will it, won't it?
Will
it forever be a separate but equal product? Why does it even need the
MapServer foundation?
Daniel wrote:
Some of the benefits of both projects working together will be
sharing
of underlying libraries and code. Some obvious ones are the FDO/
OGR/GDAL
data access libs, but there will be more over time.
Withe regard to the licensing issue, I for one would like to hear
the stance
on this, too. You see, the Autodesk product was released under LGPL
and
Mapserver under a very different license. Using the _code_ (as in
not whole
libraries) from the autodesk offering would necessitate the change of
Mapserver licensing, or am I wrong on this one ? I'm not sure the
ramifications of this are all that apparent - MapServer had a much
more free
(IIRC BSD style) license. Many of you may not have followed the
discussions
but this is gaining importance as the upcoming GPL v3 has some
important
changes wrt web applications.
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