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Hi Thomas,<br>
<br>
the short story is that larger companies are sometimes a "little"
uneasy with using GPLed software, while MIT works with them.<br>
<br>
The first great story is that we as WhereGroup are having such
customers and the second is that the MIT license is GPL compatible.<br>
<br>
Both licenses are not forcing anyone to publish their changes like
the AGPL for example would, but the MIT license makes working in an
corporate environment definately easier. For us as Mapbender devs,
for WhereGroup bringing Open Source into these environments and for
the corporate customers gaining powerful Open Source software they
are at ease with.<br>
<br>
If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Christian<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/13/2014 07:37 PM, Thomas
Baschetti wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>i must admit i'm quite happy with Mapbender being GPL'ed.
Is there any real/actual need for a license change?</div>
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<div>but, i can live with MIT, so i vote</div>
<div>0 for a license change</div>
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<div>Thomas</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM,
Christian Wygoda <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:christian.wygoda@wheregroup.com"
target="_blank">christian.wygoda@wheregroup.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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steering committee,<br>
<br>
as you know Mapbender (2.x and 3) is dual licensed under GNU
GPL and simplified BSD license. In my opinion this is
unneccecarily complicated, as everybode should be allowed to
use and enhance the software, even with the freedom to not
have to open-source their enhancements. While I encourage
everyone to participate fully open in the development
process I don't want to us to enforce it.<br>
<br>
So i would like to simplify the Mapbender3 licensing and
suggest to publish Mapbender3 exclusively under the MIT
license [1].<br>
<br>
We checked the licensing of the different modules and
software we use for Mapbender3 and found only MIT compatible
licenses. You will find list of the components and their
licenses at the end of the email. I also added some links to
the different licenses.<br>
<br>
So i start a motion to change the license of Mapbender3 to
MIT license alone and ask the steering committee to vote
until 25.07.2014.<br>
<br>
I therefore opt with +1 for the aforementioned proposal.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Christan Wygoda - project chair<br>
<br>
Mapbender Components<br>
===============<br>
symfony/symfony (MIT license)<br>
doctrine/orm (MIT license)<br>
doctrine/doctrine-bundle (MIT license)<br>
twig/extensions (MIT license)<br>
symfony/assetic-bundle (MIT license)<br>
symfony/swiftmailer-bundle (MIT license)<br>
symfony/monolog-bundle (MIT license)<br>
sensio/distribution-bundle (MIT license)<br>
sensio/framework-extra-bundle (MIT license)<br>
sensio/generator-bundle (MIT license)<br>
jms/security-extra-bundle (Apache License 2)<br>
jms/di-extra-bundle (Apache License 2)<br>
friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle (MIT license)<br>
kriswallsmith/buzz (MIT license)<br>
doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle (MIT license)<br>
toooni/fpdf (Apache License 2)<br>
arsgeografica/signing (LGPL)<br>
OpenLayers (2-clause BSD License)<br>
jQuery (MIT license)<br>
jQuery UI (MIT license)<br>
jQuery.blockUI (dual: MIT License/GPL)<br>
MapQuery (MIT license)<br>
Proj4JS (MIT license)<br>
Backbone.js (MIT license)<br>
Underscore.js (MIT license)<br>
Codemirror (MIT license)<br>
Font Awesome<br>
* Fonts: (SIL Open Font License)<br>
* Code: (MIT license)<br>
Doctrine (LGPL)<br>
<br>
Links:<br>
[1] MIT license: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" target="_blank">http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</a><br>
[2] simified BSD/2-clause BSD: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause"
target="_blank">http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause</a><br>
[3] LGPL: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license"
target="_blank">http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license</a><br>
[4] Apache license 2.0: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html"
target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html</a><br>
[5] SIL Open Font License: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL"
target="_blank">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL</a><br>
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