[OSGeo-Discuss] MapLibre

[Luke Seelenbinder]

Hi List,

Thanks, Jorge.

> Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the "MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future development.

I'm one of the people that's been working especially to coordinate a unified community response, and as such, I have had cursory discussions regarding this with Tom Chadwin, Tom Kralidis, and Angelos Tzotsos; I'm also aware of other people who have discussed this with OSGeo via other channels.

I'm happy to answer any additional questions anyone on the list might have, as I'm sure any of the other community members would, as well.

From initial discussions, we would like to see how we can proceed to a possible incubation and eventual community project status, but for now we're excited to have a clear path forward and are looking to support open source for web mapping in the future.

Also, glad to be a member of the list, now!

Best,
Luke

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Luke Seelenbinder
Stadia Maps | Founder
stadiamaps.com | (864) 735-8533

> On 9 Dec 2020, at 21:38, Jorge Sanz <xurxosanz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello OSGeo,
> 
> Some of you may have heard about yesterday's announcement regarding Mapbox GL JS v2 having a license change[1] from BSD into a closed license. Since Mapbox GL JS v1.13 is still Open Source (BSD), several people forked the main repository to continue with the project. 
> 
> Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the "MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future development.
> 
> One of the objectives pointed out during the meeting was to contact and start establishing a relationship with the OSGeo Foundation so hence this email :-)
> 
> I think I can speak in the name of everyone that met today, to thank and acknowledge Mapbox for the amazing job done in the library and the Open Source world, respecting their decision, and hoping they maintain their commitment to the vast number of many other Open Source libraries and components they have developed over the years.
> 
> You can find more details about MapLibre in this initial coordinating document[2]. If you are interested in this effort, please keep an eye on the document, feel free to join the communication channels that suit you, and stay tuned for a first release of the library under the MapLibre name.
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162 <https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162>
> [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view>-- 
> Jorge Sanz

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