Oh, I prefer GPL, and in this case, since it's uncompiled code it probably doesn't matter. I just know lots of people belly ache about the GPL, so I'm trying to insert that perspective... . :)
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Pierre Racine <[email protected]>wrote: > > IMHO, It's fine (actually wonderful) that postgis is in the GPL, it > protects the > > project and does not really limit its use in any substantive way. It's > big > > enough to stand on its own. But re: #2 GPL would limit the wide use of > > these scripts. > > How would GPL limit the wide use of these scripts? I find it's ok that any > derivative be licensed the same way. It doesn't force a using software to > be completely under GPL, just the derivative scripts of those scripts. It > seems to me that the fact that PL/pgSQL is open by nature makes it very > easy to redistribute these files or any derivative with the same license > without limiting the rest of the software to be under any other kind of > license. Does that make sense? > > Pierre > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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