<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm +1<div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br><div><div>On 2011-05-10, at 11:28 AM, Tim Schaub wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hey-<br><br>We've had discussions previously about adopting a license that has<br>more widespread use than our modified BSD license. The motivation for<br>making a change is increase the likelihood that others can use<br>OpenLayers without having to direct specific licensing questions to a<br>very small pool of people (perhaps a pool of one).<br><br>The 2-clause BSD, referred to as "Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD<br>License" looks good to me<br>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause</a>).<br><br>This license differs from our current license<br>(<a href="http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt">http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt</a>) in a number<br>of ways:<br><br>1) The 2-clause license omits the non-endorsement clause. Our current<br>license says that nobody can use the OpenLayers name to endorse<br>products that use OpenLayers without specific written permission. To<br>my knowledge, we have given specific written permission once. There<br>are enough other uses of the OpenLayers name in promoting software<br>that uses OpenLayers that I think we are not going to enforce this<br>non-endorsement clause.<br><br>2) The 2-clause license doesn't contain any language about patent<br>rights. Our current language about patent rights is not included in<br>other common forms of the BSD (OpenLayers and FeatureServer are the<br>two uses I could quickly find). Removing this specific language would<br>align our license with licenses used by many other projects - reducing<br>the chance of licensing questions that are specific to our project.<br><br>I'm open to hearing proposals to use another license.<br><br>I'm +1 on changing to the 2-clause BSD.<br><br>Tim<br><br>-- <br>Tim Schaub<br>OpenGeo <a href="http://opengeo.org/">http://opengeo.org/</a><br>Expert service straight from the developers.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dev@lists.osgeo.org">Dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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