I guess the fact that PL/pgSQL is not compiled and hence is open "by nature" should have an incidence on the choice of the license. No?
I bend toward GPL in any case... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:postgis-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Racine > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:45 PM > To: PostGIS Users Discussion > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out! > > 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 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
