[Liblas-devel] Drivers

[Howard Butler]

On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> Howard Butler wrote:
>> LGPL wouldn't be the end of the world, but I think something like this needs to be BSD to ensure wider proprietary software uptake. Individual drivers could be LGPL though.
> 
> In that case, Boost license would be even better than BSD.
> Boost project specified a few fundamental requirements about licensing:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#License
> 
> Next, they evaluated popular licenses if they address those
> requirements properly:
> 
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License
> 
> BSD license was also compared
> 
> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License/BSD_License
> 
> The process concluded that there is no Open Source license that
> guarantees/helps to guarantee there are literally no obstacles in wide
> adoption of software in any use cases
> The Boost license is not restricted to use for Boost libraries.

Ok, I'm not so concerned about license at all as long as there is a collaborative project behind it with some weight.  I don't know if lidarformat (bad name IMO) has that yet.  

Howard