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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">First, I cannot give legal advice, so
you are on your own there. Second, I object to your email subject
as being FUD. <br>
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GeoMoose IS copyrighted material. The license that GeoMoose is
distributed under is available in the LICENSE file in every
download, near the top of the source files, and on the GeoMoose
website [1]. GeoMoose and OpenLayers are both OSGeo Projects, so
another place to look is at the requirements for a project to pass
OSGeo Incubation [2].<br>
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Most other open source projects are similar.<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html">http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html</a><br>
[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html">http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html</a><br>
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Jim Klassen<br>
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On 2014/1/29 12:49 PM, Ed Boesenberg wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been trying to convince the Board of
Directors of the company I work for to let me engage current
customers and possibly new customers to setup GeoMoose type
web applications and other similar type web applications based
on OpenLayers. The Board is reluctant because of copyright
infringement. Their argument is how can I prove that GeoMoose
and OpenLayers is not infringing upon other copyrighted
material. They considered getting a patent attorney to review
my code\GeoMoose code but they aren't able to justify the
cost. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How can I prove my argument that GeoMoose
and similar open source code is not copyright material?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E<o:p></o:p></p>
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