[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo/LocationTech relationship

[María Arias de Reyna]

I answer myself, yes, they filter by name. And explicitly forbid GPL licenses:
https://www.locationtech.org/faq-questions-inline

Which licenses does LocationTech allow?

The following licenses are allowed at LocationTech without special approval:

EPL
EDL (BSD)
MIT
Apache v2

Other licenses might be considered based on approval of the
LocationTech Steering Committee and Eclipse Foundation board.



The following licenses are not allowed at LocationTech:

AGPL
GPL (v2 & v3)


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:38 AM, María Arias de Reyna
<delawen+osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are you sure that is a complete list of what the approved licenses are? That
> would be pretty disappointing if they limit by "name" of the license instead
> of by "rights".
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Massimiliano Cannata
> <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Sandro,
>>
>> from https://www.locationtech.org/charter in "IP Management" section:
>>
>> "... The group will follow the Eclipse Foundation's IP due diligence
>> process in order to provide clean open source software released under
>> licenses approved by the group and the Eclipse Foundation Board of
>> Directors. Approved licenses for this group include EPL, MIT, BSD, and
>> Apache 2.0. ...."
>>
>> So I understand that GPL is not welcome in LocationTech ;-)
>>
>> Maxi
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-11-13 7:49 GMT+01:00 Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net>:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:29:59PM +0000, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>
>>> > I may as well link to my more recent talk (https://vimeo.com/142989259)
>>> > as
>>>
>>> Interesting talk Jody, thank you !
>>>
>>> One thing it wasn't clear to me (I might have dreamt it):
>>> did you say that LocationTech only accept non-copylefted projects
>>> in the foundation ? I think it came out by the very end
>>> of the talk, in response to a question from Luca Delucchi (~30:00)
>>>
>>> I tried browsing the locationtech.org website but found no mention
>>> of this limitation.
>>>
>>> It's confusing, because you early mentioned that projects can be
>>> in both foundations while if that's confirmed projects like PostGIS,
>>> GRASS or QGIS (to name a few) could _not_ be.
>>>
>>> It is interesting that they have dedicated IP stuff, would come to
>>> think the actual goal is to help companies ride the "Open Source" tide
>>> (still big, and still growing) w/out risk of getting wet...
>>>
>>> --strk;
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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>>
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