[Board] About Asking permission for re-licensing from LGPL to Apache

[Cameron Shorter]

Even pointed me at further discussion about this issue:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=geotools-administration&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=201207

For people outside of the geotools community, such as the board, I think 
it would be helpful to explain why some PSC members might object to a 
license change.

And the obvious question which hasn't seemed to be touched on is whether 
a dual license would be acceptable?

I get the feeling that there are bigger implications than just a license 
change which have not been publicly verbalised, and I think it would 
help to get these out in the open.
* In particular, it seems that core to this discussion is the 
relationship between OSGeo and LocationTech, along with business 
implications associated with that.
* A board decision related to geotools will likely have implications on 
similar discussions likely to happen for other OSGeo projects.

Disclaimer: I'm personally not on the OSGeo Board, or Geotools PSC 
(although I did mentor Geotools through incubation)

On 27/07/2012 9:03 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> (I'm not subscribed to the board mailing list, just reading it from web
> interface, hence the private message, but feel free to forward it)
>
> I didn't found minutes from a meeting, but the archive of geotools-
> administration (
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=geotools-
> administration&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=201207 ) gives a good idea
> of the opinion of some GeoTools PSC members.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Even


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