Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] request for source code

2009-05-05 Thread Paulo 'Pmarc' Marcondes
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Kaustav Dhar kaustav.d...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, I want to get some smple source code so that I can start my own web GIS application developement. the osgeo.org portal has links to hosted projects. From there you have access to source code. -- Paulo Marcondes

[OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Nenad Milasinovic
Hello, I am interested is there any reliable open source, LGPL licensed GIS SDK or library suited for building commercial, platform independent GIS application on top of it. I am also interested for commercial solutions but only as SDK or library. I will appreciate any help. Best regards.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 5-May-09, at 6:07 AM, Nenad Milasinovic wrote: I am interested is there any reliable open source, LGPL licensed GIS SDK or library suited for building commercial, platform independent GIS application on top of it. I am also interested for commercial solutions but only as SDK or library.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Ames
Nenad, The OSGeo projects use a variety of licenses. You'll see LGPL, MPL, GPL, MIT, and others. If you are developing commercial tools, you'll need to avoid GPL (someone correct me if I'm wrong.) Also take into consideration development platform/language. My group (MapWindow project) has a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Ames
IANAL either, but I do read wikipedia. So by way of clarification... Everything I've read makes a clear distinction between GPL and LGPL such that GPL code can not be embedded in or linked to a closed source application. Period. Whereas L-GPL licensed code can be linked to a closed source

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGIS 2009 Registration

2009-05-05 Thread Suchith Anand
* Apologies for the cross-postings* Hello All, We had a server problem with registrations over the Bank Holiday weekend, so could i request anyone who tried to register for OSGIS 2009 between 30 April - 5 May 2009 to register again at the conference website http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:24:47AM -0500, P Kishor wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Daniel Ames amesd...@isu.edu wrote: Nenad, The OSGeo projects use a variety of licenses. You'll see LGPL, MPL, GPL, MIT, and others. If you are developing commercial tools, you'll need to avoid GPL

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:33:40AM -0600, Daniel Ames wrote: IANAL either, but I do read wikipedia. So by way of clarification... Everything I've read makes a clear distinction between GPL and LGPL such that GPL code can not be embedded in or linked to a closed source application. Period.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Daniel Ames amesd...@isu.edu wrote: IANAL either, but I do read wikipedia. So by way of clarification... Everything I've read makes a clear distinction between GPL and LGPL such that GPL code can not be embedded in or linked to a closed source application.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Picavet Vincent
Hi, Some more precision. Let's say ShapeLib is published under GPL (I don't know whether or not it is; this is only for illustration purpose). Let's say, MapServer utilizes ShapeLib, but doesn't modify ShapeLib, but uses ShapeLib as is. Let's say, MapServer's creator decides to make

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:55:47AM -0500, P Kishor wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Daniel Ames amesd...@isu.edu wrote: IANAL either, but I do read wikipedia. So by way of clarification... Everything I've read makes a clear distinction between GPL and LGPL such that GPL code can not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:55:47AM -0500, P Kishor wrote: .. Thanks Dan (and Christopher and others), I see the distinction now between GPL and LGPL. However, I am reading the actual GPL text and its extensive

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Landon Blake
Here is a concrete example: I believe OpenJUMP plug-ins must be released under the GPL, because they are dynamically loaded and share data structures with the core program. This is a good discussion. Thanks. :] On a side note: I believe that UDig is released under the LGPL and it is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Yves Moisan
But if he wants to keep his code under some closed-source license then he can not link to or embed any GPL licensed code or library. Whence licence exceptions e.g. in ExtJS (http://extjs.com/products/floss-exception.php) to allow using ExtJS (GPL) with an application/library that is

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:47:32PM -0400, Yves Moisan wrote: But if he wants to keep his code under some closed-source license then he can not link to or embed any GPL licensed code or library. Whence licence exceptions e.g. in ExtJS

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Barbier-Accary Aurélien
-Message d'origine- De : discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- boun...@lists.osgeo.org] De la part de Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) Envoyé : mardi 5 mai 2009 18:00 À : OSGeo Discussions Objet : Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries On 5-May-09, at 6:07 AM, Nenad Milasinovic wrote:

Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Ljiljana Ilic
Thanks Tyler, I am looking for Java GIS library, which is capable of working with various geospatial data formats: ESRI shapefiles, KML, GML, PostGis, GeoTiff etc. I am looking for library that is quite stable and with remarkable rendering capabilities, panning and zooming. I want to define

RE: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Landon Blake
I already look at Geotools library, and i am looking for something similar but with better rendering performance. I don't think such an open source project exists, at least not under the LGPL. A couple of other projects you could check out are gvSIG and the IGeoDesktop from the deegree Project.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Cuinet Jérôme
I'm curious and I have seen the GNU libc license, and it's obviously GPL. According to this thread, if I have well understood the GPL, all software linked with glibc are licensed under GPL ? I had seen http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#PortProgramToGL wich suggest that a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:09:50PM +0200, Cuinet Jérôme wrote: I'm curious and I have seen the GNU libc license, and it's obviously GPL. It's not GPL, it's LGPL. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, glibc is free software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Cuinet Jérôme
Yeah ! I found the flaw : There is two files in glibc folder, COPYING and COPYING.LIB. COPYING is the GPL text. COPYING.LIB is the LGPL text. Logic ! And the presence of the license text don't mean that the software is under that license. The mention that means what license is to be applied