[postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!

[Pierre Racine]

I knew we would fall into a license nightmare... So far we've got suggestions for "No rights reserved", BSD, Creative Common Zero, GPL, LGPL, MIT...

Any of these license would make it hard to move a function from the Add-ons to PostGIS core? That would be a good candidate for elimination.

Why people do not like the PostGIS GPL?

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Basille
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:04 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!
> 
> Le 11/18/2013 12:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge a écrit :
> > On 11/18/2013 12:20 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> >> On 18 November 2013 17:13, Pierre Racine
> <Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I'm a license ignorant.
> >>
> >> Release it into the public domain and
> >> include a statement that you release all rights
> >> adding "No rights reserved".
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >   +1 on this because it is the most friendly and can be used by everyone
> > regardless of license that they are using. It absolutely has no license
> > conflicts.
> 
> Although I'm a very big fan of public domain, it has its own limitations.
> For instance, some countries (randomly picked: France) do not allow one to
> declare its creation in the public domain. This is something that's granted
> from its nature (e.g. a representative speech or a math formula) or that is
> gained after a couple of decades after the death of the author (which is
> quite unlikely for PostGIS).
> 
> Instead, I would much favor explicit licenses, such as the much simple
> (2-clauses) BSD [1] or the Creative Common Zero [2]. Both of them give the
> user the maximum flexibility and make sure there is no license conflict
> afterwards. The BSD, my favorite, is also super easy to read and understand.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Mathieu.
> 
> 
> [1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> 
> [2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
> 
> 
> >
> > Best,
> >    -Steve
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