I knew we would fall into a license nightmare... So far we've got suggestions for "No rights reserved", BSD, Creative Common Zero, GPL, LGPL, MIT...
Any of these license would make it hard to move a function from the Add-ons to PostGIS core? That would be a good candidate for elimination. Why people do not like the PostGIS GPL? Pierre > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:postgis-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mathieu Basille > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:04 PM > To: PostGIS Users Discussion > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out! > > Le 11/18/2013 12:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge a écrit : > > On 11/18/2013 12:20 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >> On 18 November 2013 17:13, Pierre Racine > <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> I'm a license ignorant. > >> > >> Release it into the public domain and > >> include a statement that you release all rights > >> adding "No rights reserved". > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > > +1 on this because it is the most friendly and can be used by everyone > > regardless of license that they are using. It absolutely has no license > > conflicts. > > Although I'm a very big fan of public domain, it has its own limitations. > For instance, some countries (randomly picked: France) do not allow one to > declare its creation in the public domain. This is something that's granted > from its nature (e.g. a representative speech or a math formula) or that is > gained after a couple of decades after the death of the author (which is > quite unlikely for PostGIS). > > Instead, I would much favor explicit licenses, such as the much simple > (2-clauses) BSD [1] or the Creative Common Zero [2]. Both of them give the > user the maximum flexibility and make sure there is no license conflict > afterwards. The BSD, my favorite, is also super easy to read and understand. > > Sincerely, > Mathieu. > > > [1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause > > [2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ > > > > > > Best, > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > -- > > ~$ whoami > Mathieu Basille, PhD > > ~$ locate --details > University of Florida \\ > Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center > (+1) 954-577-6314 > http://ase-research.org/basille > > ~$ fortune > « Le tout est de tout dire, et je manque de mots > Et je manque de temps, et je manque d'audace. » > -- Paul Éluard > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
