[OSGeo-Discuss] GDAL and ESRI

[Yves Jacolin (free)]

Le samedi 07 novembre 2009, Ravi a écrit :
> How come ESRI uses GDAL too, does open source support closed source too.

Hi,

It depends the OS Licence. GDAL licence is BSD-Like  [1].

Some other are usinng GPL-LIKe licence. This kind of licence does not allow 
closed source to user open source licence. They need to "open" their source 
using a GPL-Like licence [2].

This is quiet complicated ;)

Y.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
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