[MetaCRS] Proj4js license

Howard Butler hobu.inc at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 17:30:22 EDT 2012


On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Michael Adair wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> An issue over the Proj4js license was raised on the OpenLayers mailing list, basically someone can't use it because of the LGPL license.  I'm not sure why that license was chosen but it probably came as a carry-over from the MapBuilder project.  The intention for has always been for there to be no restrictions on using the library, so I'm proposing changing the Proj4js license to use the MIT license.
> 
> Comments?

If you are the only contributor, it should be no problem to alter the license of Proj4js to something more permissive. Otherwise, you should expect to get the sign off of all of the other contributors to Proj4js to relicense the code.

Howard



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