You may wish to talk to your customers. Mine did not mind ( as long as it was open source ), mild preference for EPL as they would not have to change any paperwork.
This is very much a case of "do what is right for the project" - and no further direction. Perhaps what we can do is take Andrew up on his offer of a meeting to go over this. While we have established the limits via email, perhaps a meeting would be better for a decision. -- Jody Garnett On 03/10/2012, at 4:20 PM, Jesse Eichar <jesse.eic...@camptocamp.com> wrote: I am not really familiar with the different pros and cons of the licenses. If I remember from the thread EPL has the con of being difficult to merge changes from EPL back to the license Geotools uses. What else should I consider? On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently ALv2 did not make the cut. > > That makes a choice of: > > - BSD - this one you always customise to say which organisation is > providing (so BSD style license) > - EPL - acceptable with drawbacks > - MIT > > Next up a formal email to PSC and user list, and gather together a work > team to do this one. > -- > Jody Garnett > > On Tuesday, 2 October 2012 at 12:25 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > > Discussion on LocaitonTech has now gotten back to this question… > basically confirms what we already know. > > I had a question around the use of EPL (I know it is your recommended > default license). > > The story we are focused on is ability to transfer small blocks of code > down into GeoTools when the occasion warrants. > - We have a history of pushing, particularly QA and testing code, closer > to where the problems occur. > - I have also watched teams rapidly prototyped code in uDig (often for a > customer / deadline) before transferring the technology to GeoTools in > benefit from wider community testing. > > Q: Is this story possible with EPL, or should we focus on one of the other > license options? > > A: EPL to LGPL is not possible at the patch level (can be handled at the > component jar level) > A: The "universal donor licenses" are MIT and BSD and ALv2 > > Jody > > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
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