[pgrouting-dev] Licensing for Co-development between OpenGraphRouter and pgRouting

[Anton Patrushev]

Hi Daniel,

Doesn't this statement
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
assume later (i.e. v3) versions?

I support getting rid of CGAL, but I don't think that PostGIS hulls
fit all possible cases of Driving Distance use.

Anton.

On 6/3/11, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> wrote:
> 2011/6/3 Anton Patrushev <anton.patrushev at georepublic.de>
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I believe pgRouting is under GPLv3 - I think we changed from v2 last
>> year. For me GPL/MIT dual licensing looks a bit strange, I mean I
>> can't imagine a case when one would prefer GPL.
>>
>
> No, it hasn't changed.
>
>
>
>>
>> MIT is GPL compatible and I see no problem with PostGIS which is also
>> under
>> GPL.
>>
>> By the way, we already have GPL/QPL compatibility issue :)
>>
>
> I would like to remove CGAL dependency and just return points for driving
> distance.
> With PostGIS 2.0 there is also support for concave hull. Then CGAL isn't
> necessary anymore to calculate the drive time polygon.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Anton.
>>
>> On 5/27/11, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>> > Hi PSC,
>> >
>> > I have been talking with Roni about doing more development for
>> > OpenGraphRouter and to possible integrate that with pgRouting. The first
>> > issue I see is that of licensing. OpenGraphRouter is using an MIT-X
>> > style license (and wants to stay that way) and I believe pgRouting is
>> > using a GPLv2 License.
>> >
>> > So I think this means we can move OpenGraphRouter code into pgRouting,
>> > which would make that code dual licensed, ie code used in pgRouting
>> > would become GPLv2, but the original in OpenGraphRouter would remain
>> > MIT-X, but we could not move pgRouting code into OpenGraphRouter.
>> >
>> > One of my goals as we move forward is that code we develop should be
>> > have a reference implementation in a command line tool in
>> > OpenGraphRouter and a reference implementation with in pgRouting.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thoughts on the licensing issues?
>> >
>> > Would there be any interest in supporting a similar dual licensing in
>> > pgRouting? This might not be possible because Postgresql/PostGIS
>> licensing.
>> >
>> > Frank, Paul, can you comment please.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >    -Steve
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