[MetaCRS] Proj4js license

[RICHARD Didier]

> Richard, Stephen, Didier, and any other contributors I may have missed,
>
> Does anyone have any objection to moving Proj4js to use a more liberal
> license (I am suggesting the MIT license used by the Proj.4 library)?
> If not, I can make the change and issue a new release.
>

No objection on my side.

Didier

> Mike
>
>
> On 27/03/2012 5:30 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>> 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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