<html><head></head><body>Dear Maria,<br>
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Hopefully the choice of license for a project, or in this case choices for licenses by a group of projects are not cause for outrage. Each project will choose what makes sense to them, and that's a great thing.<br>
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This is very common. Apache has chosen the Apache license. Mozilla the MPL. Eclipse was EPL focused for a while, but now allows a bunch of choice and that list keeps growing.<br>
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For what it's worth, these choices are rarely made out of ignorance. <br>
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It is the viral nature of the GPL & AGPL that keeps projects using those licenses out if LocationTech & Eclipse for now. That may change, or not, in response to the members and projects that govern want in time. <br>
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Personally, I understand all license choice perspectives, and respect them. I say this as someone who's been making a living in FOSS for 25 years.<br>
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Hope this helps a bit,<br>
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Andrea<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 13, 2015 9:45:23 AM GMT+01:00, "María Arias de Reyna" <delawen+osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:41 AM, María Arias de Reyna<br /><delawen+osgeo@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I answer myself, yes, they filter by name. And explicitly forbid GPL licenses:<br /> <a href="https://www.locationtech.org/faq-questions-inline">https://www.locationtech.org/faq-questions-inline</a><br /><br /> Which licenses does LocationTech allow?<br /><br /> The following licenses are allowed at LocationTech without special approval:<br /><br /> EPL<br /> EDL (BSD)<br /> MIT<br /> Apache v2<br /><br /> Other licenses might be considered based on approval of the<br /> LocationTech Steering Committee and Eclipse Foundation board.<br /><br /><br /><br /> The following licenses are not allowed at LocationTech:<br /><br /> AGPL<br /> GPL (v2 & v3)</blockquote><br /><br /><br />For me this is a major outrage, but I understand that OSGeo is
focused<br />on open software, not on free software. (Remember: free includes open,<br />open doesn't include free).<br /><br />So I would understand collaborations between LocationTech and OSGeo,<br />where open is the key and not freedom. And we have found a big<br />difference between both organizations: we are more open and more free.<br />Maybe they still believe that they cannot do bussiness over GPL<br />derived licenses. And as wrong as they are, if their main focus is on<br />bussiness, it is understandable they are afraid of freedom.<br /><hr /><br />Discuss mailing list<br />Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br /><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>