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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I personally would be okay with that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Ramsey<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 09, 2017 11:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> GEOS Development List <geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [geos-devel] Alternative licensing for GEOS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Just randomly, if IBM licensed GEOS for $100K / year for five years, would that be acceptable? <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>One can write a lot of free software for $100K / year.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>It's not uncommon for copyleft projects to self-support with relicensing deals. Wonder what our community members think about that.<br>P.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br>James Turner <<a href="mailto:james.turner@weather.com">james.turner@weather.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> We would like to know if alternative licensing is available for GEOS,<br>> as the object distribution requirements for the LGPL don’t really make<br>> any sense in iOS applications.<br><br>The key issue is that the permission granted is intended to be<br>conditioned on the user being able to do some things, and Apple chooses<br>not to let the user do those things.<br><br>The notion that "the iOS rules don't make sense" is an equally valid<br>viewpoint in this case.<br><br>Perhaps you could ask Apple to let users share Free Software that<br>they've obtained from the app store, with each other, and to add a way<br>for people to rebuild LGPL code, relink it, and install it on their<br>devices :-) Obviously I don't expect you to do that, and I don't expect<br>the request to be at all succesful, but this is basically why the Free<br>Software community is not receptive to "could you change your licensing<br>so I can distribute proprietary software via a mechanism that is<br>explicitly hostile to Free Software".<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>geos-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org">geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>