[postgis-devel] License conflict between PostGIS core and raster

Pierre Racine Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca
Tue Oct 22 07:47:45 PDT 2013


+1 for me.

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-devel-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bborie Park
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 5:54 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-devel] License conflict between PostGIS core and raster
> 
> It has come to my attention that the license of the raster component is
> GPL3+ while PostGIS core is GPL2 only. The licenses are not compatible and
> as a contributor to the raster component, I'd like to see the removal of this
> conflict.
> 
> As for my opinion (for what it's worth), I'd like to see the raster component
> be relicensed to GPL2+ for 2.0, 2.1 and -trunk.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bborie



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