Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was [OSGeo-Standards] REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the update Martin. Let me know if I can help.

Landon

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Martin Isenburg  wrote:

> Hi Landon,
>
> We must be on the same clock. Just yesterday I inquired via LinkedIn with
> the managing editor, Roland Mangold (cc-ed).
>
> "Hello Roland, has the rebuttal to the "Open Source Mania" article been
> published in the meantime? Was hoping to see you at ELMF / Capturing
> Reality ... Regards, Martin"
>
> the response was
>
> "Hi Martin ...its being reviewed by Marc and Allen Cheves ...they are the
> owners of LiDAR Magazine ..."
>
> This could be bad news as usually these kind of publications are always
> looking for interesting content ... so letting a few magazines go by for
> this well edited article by Oliver seems odd.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Landon Blake <
> sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did we ever hear back from the guys at LIDAR Magazine about publishing a
>> response?
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Jo Cook 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is something that we at OSGeo should definitely respond to.
>>> Perhaps we could contact the magazine and explain that there were some
>>> factual errors in the article, and ask for a chance to respond?
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <
>>> johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Martin Isenburg
  wrote:

 > Another curious thing is that I (and the open source license LGPL) was
 > attacked vehemently in a recent column called "Open Source Mania" by
 Lewis
 > Graham that was published in the LiDAR News magazine. Viewer
 discretion
 > advised and parental guidance suggested ... you will not like this FUD
 > attack:
 >
 >
 http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_Graham-OpenSourceMania_Vol5No4.pdf
 >

 I read the article and there are a lot of statements there which are
 false.
 " if you touch a piece of GPL code with the nine foot pole of
 launching it with a Python script, that script must now be GPLed"
 not true

 "Suppose you have developed some very, very clever algorithm on which
 you and your university have applied for a patent. If you have coded
 your algorithm and used any GPL whatsoever, you just GPLed your
 patent. The patent rights effectively transfer to the Open Software
 Foundation for free distribution."

 Completely untrue. The Open Software Foundation does not exist. You
 don't transfer patent rights at all. A well known counter-example is
 the algortihm for MP3, where the code (lame) was released under LGPL.

 I think as OSGeo we should reply to the statements, this is an attack
 on our community. Perhaps we can ask someone from the Free Software
 Foundation Europe to help write a response?

 Kind Regards,
 Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Starting the build process for OSGeo-Live 9.5 - THREDDS?

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Ethan,
Are you the right person to talk to about THREDDS?
THREEDS [1] has previously been suggested as a candidate for inclusion 
on OSGeo-Live, but more recently I've heard rumours of a lack of 
activity from the THREEDS community.


[1] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/

Warm regards, Cameron Shorter

On 23/11/2015 6:18 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
We are starting the build cycle for version 9.5 of the OSGeo-Live [1] 
DVD/USB/VM which will be released in March 2016, ready for several 
special events, including FOSS4G-NA, FOSSGIS (Salzburg, Austria), 
among others.


We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to 
OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add translations, or anyone 
who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.


Key Milestones
11 Jan 2016 All new applications installed, most old applications updated
01 Feb 2016 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)
15 Feb 2016 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed and working)
21 Mar 2016 Final ISO sent to printers

About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source 
Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can 
use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial 
software without installing anything.


[1] http://live.osgeo.org



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