: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
Markus Neteler wrote:
A project can decide what makes the most sense for them.
Note that for long-term projects a license change is rather difficult
to realize (especially if older contributors are no longer
traceable..).
Just check
On 07/27/2012 10:27 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of
Markus Neteler wrote:
A project can decide what makes the most sense for them.
Note that for long-term projects a license change
is rather difficult to realize (especially if older contributors
are no longer traceable..).
Just check out how long it's taking on openstreetmap ...
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On 28.07.2012 05:44, Andrew Ross wrote:
On 27 July 2012 18:43, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org
mailto:nete...@osgeo.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Ross
andrew.r...@eclipse.org mailto:andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and
I'm also sure many of us can name firms that have no issue shipping LGPL
Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto:
GPL is dying, of natural causes.
http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards,
is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon?
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Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto:
GPL is dying, of natural causes.
http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards,
is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon?
Well, if you do a quick search for GPL on github,
On 27 July 2012 11:47, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a
On 07/27/2012 12:55 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
3.You can also re-license the finished product under a commercial
license of your choice this seems to be the biggest difference with
LGPL. But there's also another big difference, and EPL program is
incompatible with all other OS licenses
On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org wrote:
BSD, MIT, Apache wouldn't have this issue - at the expense of not having the
weak copyleft. Basically people can take the code and do what they wish with
it.
+1
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Puneet Kishor
FYI: I release all of the code for my projects under the GPL and LGPL,
and have no plans on switching for my projects. So the licenses aren't
dead quite yet. :]
I think there is a tradeoff in the licensing decision between the
greater adoption that comes with a weaker license, and the stricter
On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and
I'm also sure many of us can name
Nobody has expressed interest in GeoTools and we are very happy where
we are with LGPL as a biz friendly license.
uDig is attempting an out reach to the Eclipse foundation, both as a
source of developer trained up in the Eclipse RCP framework which use
as our plugin system, and as we are
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote:
On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there is a tradeoff in the licensing decision between the
greater adoption that comes with a weaker license, and the stricter
adherence to open source principles that come with a stronger
license.
On 27 July 2012 15:50, Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think there is a tradeoff in the licensing decision between the
greater adoption that comes with a weaker license, and the stricter
On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 July 2012 15:50, Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Landon Blake sunburned.surve...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think there is a tradeoff in the licensing decision between the
I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...
Puneet wrote:
[...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by
not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to
encumber with
these complications.
Do you literally mean no license at all? That might
On 27 July 2012 15:27, Seven (aka Arnulf) se...@arnulf.us wrote:
On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance
On Jul 27, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Michael P. Gerlek m...@flaxen.com wrote:
I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...
Puneet wrote:
[...] I short-circuit all license discussions in my personal domain by
not having any license. Life is too short and precious, in my view, to
encumber with
/27/2012 02:01 PM
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license
I hesitate to get into this discussion, but...
Puneet wrote:
[...] I short-circuit all license
On Jul 27, 2012, at 2:39 PM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote:
I would have to echo that. I do not see using code at work that does not
have any licensing information attached.
Agreed.
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Landon,
For what it's worth...
I eagerly read that link you provided. It represents one end of the
spectrum for values and principles in terms of open source. I believe
it's fair to say that end of the spectrum is fairly staunch and
recognized by some as radical and even marginalizing.
I
As someone who has done several for-pay projects (both big and small) to
combine proprietary and foss4g code, I can give a summary from a set of
anecdotal evidence and trends that I have noticed from a US-based consultant
point of view.
From my experience, the adoption of an open source project
On 27 July 2012 18:43, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Ross andrew.r...@eclipse.org
wrote:
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A project can decide what makes the most sense for them.
Note that for long-term projects a license change
is rather difficult to realize
Ragi,
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
You've saved me a lot of time
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Mateusz Loskot
(Sent from phone, apology for any top-posting or broken quoting)
On 27 Jul 2012 21:11, rburhum r...@burhum.com wrote:
As someone who has done several for-pay projects (both big and small) to
This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and
I'm also sure many of us can name firms that have no issue shipping LGPL
components.
Aside from that though, reading about the Apache SIS project
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