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

Pierre Racine Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca
Tue Nov 19 12:48:11 PST 2013


> 1. If it is GPL and I add it to my code them my code has to be licensed
> undr GPL. This is problematic for most business. If I have a proprietary
> product that I'm spent 100's of thousands of hours to develop and
> believe that it is critical to my success, there is no way that I can
> afford to allow GPL code into it. This is not a judgement call on the
> correctness of this thinking. And the GPL advocates will have similar
> arguments from their point of view.

My point is that, if you want to integrate it with something more restrictive, it is always very easy to separate them in different files with a different licensing scheme mostly because PL/pgSQL is not compiled.

I'm going with GPL...

Pierre


More information about the postgis-users mailing list