[postgis] Re: [PATCHES] contrib/postgis spatial extensions

[Paul Ramsey]

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> writes:
> > This is something which has been discussed on our list in the past. The
> > main argument for BSD to date has been as you noted: to get eventual
> > mainline pgsql inclusion. The main argument against, in my view, is that
> > we want to be a place where open geomatics code can aggregate.
> 
> A fair point.  The BSD theory about this is that open source process
> is enough better than closed source that you can achieve critical mass
> anyway, but if you haven't seen that happen for yourself it's hard to
> take on faith.
> 
> A possible compromise is to accept postgis as a contrib item under GPL
> now, with the thought that someday (after you feel you've achieved
> critical mass) you might relicense it as BSD so we can put it in the
> mainline postgres code.  However that bothers me somewhat: your current
> and near-future contributors might say that they contributed on the
> understanding that the license is GPL, and they don't want their
> contributions relicensed.  In practice it's awfully tough to change
> the license of an established project without making people unhappy.
> You're probably better off making your decision and sticking to it.
> 
> > We'll talk about this a bit on the list and see what the PostGIS users
> > think.
> 
> Fair enough.  Thanks for listening.
> 
>                         regards, tom lane
> 
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