<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/27/2012 10:27 AM, Seven (aka
Arnulf) wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:5012A56A.3020006@arnulf.us" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com"><tech_dev@wildintellect.com></a> wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also
appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and
I'm also sure many of us can name firms that have no issue shipping LGPL
components.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
GPL is dying, of natural causes.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github">http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github</a>
Best regards,
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
Another interesting effect is the growing interest of other
organizations in geospatial software, currently mainly on the library
side of things. Current example is GeoTools and GeoToolKit and Eclipse
and Apache respectively. It seems that this is a natural result of the
commoditization of geospatial functions and features and their
dissemination into standard IT. In coming years we will see less and
less distinguishable and openly competing geospatial projects but more
and more geospatial tools become a regular part of software
distributions. We have already seen this happen in a way with GDAL/OGR
which is being used all over the place. Just like Oracle has a WMS
viewer built in installing PostgreSQL already has PostGIS - and may
eventually also ship with MapServer and FeatureServer (or whatever makes
the race) and there is no more need for a separate installation /
configuration. Not sure where this leads us and this is just off the top
of my head, but might be interesting to have a conversation about anyway.
Cheers,
Arnulf
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
Arnulf,<br>
<br>
I think you may be right about geospatial software moving into main
stream IT. Frankly when you see big software companies like
Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others in the space then it's a
good hint the shift is well under way. <br>
<br>
The other powerful trend is pragmatic embracing of open source on
the part of companies. When companies like Microsoft, ESRI, and
others - long known for strong proprietary views - are working hard
to embrace open source then it's clear something significant is
taking place.<br>
<br>
As companies want a closer relationship with open source projects
and vice versa, <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/LocationTech">LocationTech</a>
is a strong option given Eclipse's governance + history & the
people involved.<br>
<br>
Related, for those that haven't caught it already, see this article:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/open-source-won.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/open-source-won.html</a>
<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>