[OSGeo-Discuss] Licensing

2009-11-07 Thread Ravi
Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or Ossim or any other Open GIS as well Example: I love Qgis and I have added some code to Qgis as a C++ programmer, thus giving the necessary customization for my specific client. I compile it and distribute

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Qgis-user] Licensing

2009-11-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
IFAIK, yes: if you distribute the executables, you have to distribute also the source, for all GPL programs. All the best. On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:04:36 -0800 (PST), Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com wrote: Wish to know does this violate licensing. Qgis is just as an example, it can be Grass or

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Fwd: [Boost-announce] [Review] GGL review starts today, November 5th]

2009-11-07 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, For information of developers interested in geometry tools and future of Generic Geometry Library (http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/), the Formal Review of the GGL within the Boost Community has started and is being conducted by Hartmut Kaiser as the review manager. Here are details:

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: AW: [Qgis-user] Licensing

2009-11-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Forwarding on behalf of Marco. All the best. Original Message Subject: AW: [Qgis-user] Licensing Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:35:30 +0100 From: Hugentobler Marco marco.hugentob...@karto.baug.ethz.ch To: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it, Ravi ravivundava...@yahoo.com Hi I'm

[OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI

2009-11-07 Thread Ravi
ARC-GIS 9.2 uses GDAL Need some pointers to Licensing or agreement there on. I am frequently asked questions on this. Example: ILWIS uses GDAL and became OpenGIS How come ESRI uses GDAL too, does open source support closed source too.. Ravi Kumar The INTERNET now has a personality.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI

2009-11-07 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Ravi wrote: ARC-GIS 9.2 uses GDAL Need some pointers to Licensing or agreement there on. I am frequently asked questions on this. Example: ILWIS uses GDAL and became OpenGIS How come ESRI uses GDAL too, does open source support closed source too.. You need to learn about the basic

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI

2009-11-07 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Le samedi 07 novembre 2009, Ravi a écrit : How come ESRI uses GDAL too, does open source support closed source too. Hi, It depends the OS Licence. GDAL licence is BSD-Like [1]. Some other are usinng GPL-LIKe licence. This kind of licence does not allow closed source to user open source

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: AW: [Qgis-user] Licensing

2009-11-07 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Paolo, Marco, This is true but as long as you do not release your modifications. Release means distributing for free, selling or any form of publishing. I understand Ravi's case as releasing, as he wrote: or my specific client A client is probably an out-house entity. Best regards, Mateusz

RE: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Licensing

2009-11-07 Thread Kumaran Narayanaswamy
The following FAQ present in GNU/GPL page will clarify the doubts surrounding this discussion. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#DevelopChangesUnderNDA