<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br>> if the licensing is problematic, perhaps we should review it.<br></div><br></div>Changing Mapguide <b>OS license from LGPL to GPL or AGPL</b> could be a good point to take to the current <a href="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html">Project Steering Committee</a> !!!</div><div>[Bob Bray (Chair), Bruce Dechant, Tom Fukushima, Haris Kurtagic, Jackie Ng, Paul Spencer, Zac Spitzer, Trevor Wekel]<br><br></div>But I'm not sure if that is even legally possible, because of the <b>copyleft condition</b> of <a href="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/lgpl.html">LGPL 2.1</a><i><br></i><a href="https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-2.1/">https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-2.1/</a><i><br>Primarily used for software libraries, the GNU LGPL <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b>requires that
derived works be licensed under the same license</b></span>, but works that only
link to it do not fall under this restriction<br><br></i></div>The new LGPL-3.0, seems to have corrected this, allowing to change LGPL3 to GPL3<br><a href="https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-3.0/">https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-3.0/</a><br><i>Permissions of this copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications under the same license <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">or the GNU GPLv3</span></b></i>.<br></div><br>Good luck!<br>Cheers.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-16 21:59 GMT+00:00 GordonL <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordon.luckett@arrowgeomatics.com" target="_blank">gordon.luckett@arrowgeomatics.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yes. It's all part of the same commitment.<br>
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Yes we want more people to adopt it.<br>
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Yes we free software developers should support each other.<br>
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Yes if the licensing is problematic, perhaps we should review it.<br>
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The future of MapGuide still requires the active participation of its<br>
developers, users, teachers and integrators - all of us.<br clear="all"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>