Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and GPL

2017-05-12 Thread Stephen V. Mather
ttp://www.clemetparks.com> From: FunkMonkey33 <aedwa...@ponderosa-advisors.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 12:13:51 PM To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and GPL Hi, I just noticed that GeoServer is licensed under the GNU Pu

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and GPL

2017-05-12 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, mind, I'm not a lawyer, but the license seems pretty clear, if you modify GeoServer own code, or add bits to GeoServer (your own custom plugins) that are depending on GeoServer own code, the moment you *distribute* the result, you have to also release the code of your changes and extra

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and GPL

2017-05-12 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Ciao Aaron, I can speak for myself and GeoSolutions here. GPL mandates that upon request from someone to whom you delivered the binaries of something build on top of GeoServer you should make available to him the source code. There is no mandate to put code publicly available or to give itaway

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and GPL

2017-05-12 Thread Ian Turton
First I'm not a lawyer (or necessarily in your jurisdiction)! Second try to avoid using the term commercial to describe software, all it means is that money changed hands not what licence was used. Many of us make a living selling GeoServer or selling services based on it which is commercial.