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<p>Note: my concern is only about EPSG dataset. Everything else in
PROJ look all clean for every parts I'm familiar with.<br>
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<p>Le 18/10/2019 à 15:00, Howard Butler a écrit :</p>
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<p>Any activity from IOGP isn't going to change PROJ's project
situation in regard to OSGeo incubation. While this is an
issue to monitor, it isn't one to hold things up.</p>
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<p>It depends if a graduation goal is to assert that PROJ is legally
clean. If yes, then I see this choice:</p>
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<li>PROJ can redistribute EPSG dataset under EPSG Terms of Use.</li>
<li>If PROJ wants to relicense EPSG dataset (i.e. suppress EPSG
Terms of Use and put MIT license in place, which is my
understanding of ticket #2268 [1]), then we need IOGP explicit
authorization. Most OpenSource licenses do not allow relicensing
neither (except by the author); even the MIT license does not
allow that (note: MIT allows sub-licensing, but this is
different than re-licensing).</li>
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<p>If resolving legal issues is not a graduation goal, then indeed
my remark is not relevant to the graduation process.</p>
<p> Martin<br>
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<pre>[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2268">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2268</a>
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