On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:03:41AM +0000, Jim Knopf wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> as far as I can tell from the postgis sources, both postgis and liblwgeom are 
> under the GPL. Which means, that when I want to link lwgeom to another piece 
> of software (I'm thinking of spatialite here), this again needs to be GPL and 
> when I then want to link spatialite together with e.g. gdal this again 
> becomes GPL etc. etc. -- which eventually might start to mess other things 
> up. Wouldn't it make sense/be possible to put liblwgeom (being a lib) under 
> LGPL to avoid this? 

To avoid what ? What's the mess ?
Preventing derived work from being non-free is a feature.

--strk;
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