[Geomoose-users] Re: Just went through the incubation committee meeting log.

[Jim Klassen]

On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Eli Adam wrote:

>> 2) MIT based license
>> 
>> You are running your own license here
>> (http://geomoose.org/info/license.html) as such do you need it recognised by
>> OSI? Or is MIT based enough?
>> 
>> If you want we can ask the incubation committee - or you can just decide and
>> tell us how it is :-)
> 
> Perhaps MIT 'based' is a misnomer.  A diff of
> http://geomoose.org/info/license.html  and
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php produces:
> 
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
> +Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Dan “Ducky” Little & GeoMOOSE.org
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
> the following conditions:
> 
> This makes it look like it *is* MIT rather than MIT *based*.
> 

Dan and/or Bob correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the *based* part is a historical artifact from the 1.x series that had a City of St. Paul copyright which was similar to MIT.  We had wanted MIT (to match MapServer) but the city lawyers felt they needed to change something.  (It was a bit of a battle to convince them that creating an entirely new open source license would essentially defeat adoption and so MIT based was a compromise.)  Note: The 2.x series was written from scratch (primarily by Duck) after he left the city so this isn't an issue for 2.x.

>> 
>> 3) Um where is the source code? There is no link from your home page or
>> download page - do you make a download of the source available for each
>> release? Ah I found it by trial and error ...
> 
> Has been updated in trunk for a while.  Website is a snapshot
> currently, will switch to auto-generation soon.
> 
> Thanks for the help, I think that Code Provenience is one of those
> tasks that sounds worse than it is (and thus is avoided).
> 
> Eli
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