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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
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
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
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.