Good question. MapTools will continue to exist as is for now.
There was some discussion of the MapTools name being donated to the new Foundation for exactly the reasons you have indicated, but ultimately the folks around the table wanted a name that was not already associated with a commercial entity. While we have tried to make MapTools pretty neutral, it is associated with DM Solutions Group.
What happens to projects that are hosted on MapTools right now is probably up to the individual projects. It has not yet been established what the rules of membership in the new foundation will be so not all projects may even be eligible for membership (although I hope that is not the case).
Cheers Paul On 30-Nov-05, at 4:57 PM, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
Hi all, Where does maptools.org fit into all this? Is the plan that libraries like GDAL/Shapelib/etc be then moved over to be the foundation's projects? Or going the other way, was a Map Tools Foundation considered? Seems like it would be a good umbrella for lots of diverse projects including the two map servers. The domain's right there, and I'd hate to see function of maptools.org as a focal point of open source GIS be split off into two. (Although, I'm not sure if the projects on maptools would all care to be subsumed into a foundation.) Cheers, Joonas
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