On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Eric Lemoine <eric.lemo...@camptocamp.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Tim Schaub <tsch...@opengeo.org> wrote: >> Hey- >> >> We've had discussions previously about adopting a license that has >> more widespread use than our modified BSD license. The motivation for >> making a change is increase the likelihood that others can use >> OpenLayers without having to direct specific licensing questions to a >> very small pool of people (perhaps a pool of one). >> >> The 2-clause BSD, referred to as "Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD >> License" looks good to me >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause). >> >> This license differs from our current license >> (http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt) in a number >> of ways: >> >> 1) The 2-clause license omits the non-endorsement clause. Our current >> license says that nobody can use the OpenLayers name to endorse >> products that use OpenLayers without specific written permission. To >> my knowledge, we have given specific written permission once. There >> are enough other uses of the OpenLayers name in promoting software >> that uses OpenLayers that I think we are not going to enforce this >> non-endorsement clause. >> >> 2) The 2-clause license doesn't contain any language about patent >> rights. Our current language about patent rights is not included in >> other common forms of the BSD (OpenLayers and FeatureServer are the >> two uses I could quickly find). Removing this specific language would >> align our license with licenses used by many other projects - reducing >> the chance of licensing questions that are specific to our project. >> >> I'm open to hearing proposals to use another license. >> >> I'm +1 on changing to the 2-clause BSD. > > Tim, I'm just concerned about this regarding the 2-clause BSD: > > "The Free Software Foundation, which refers to the license as the > FreeBSD License, states that it is compatible with the GNU GPL." > > (extracted from the wikipedia page)
Please elaborate on this. It says the FSF thinks the 2-clause BSD is compatible with the GPL. I don't see a negative there. > -- > Eric Lemoine > > Camptocamp France SAS > Savoie Technolac, BP 352 > 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex > > Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 > Mail : eric.lemo...@camptocamp.com > http://www.camptocamp.com > -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
