Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-06 Thread Yves Moisan
Whence licence exceptions e.g. in ExtJS (http://extjs.com/products/floss-exception.php) Assuming that you consider them valid. Red Hat Legal is firm that this exception clause isn't valid. -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471509#c2 Thanx for the precision Chris. ExtJS

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

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
To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries 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

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
rendering of map too much. I need to develop desktop application with support for vector maps. I already look at Geotools library, and i am looking for something similar but with better rendering performance. Best regards. - original message Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries Sent

RE: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Landon Blake
, May 05, 2009 12:57 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Cuinet Jérôme
To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Christopher Schmidt
? Jérôme - Original Message - From: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@crschmidt.net wrote: On Tue

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries

2009-05-05 Thread Cuinet Jérôme
:23 PM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GIS_Libraries 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