[Gdal-dev] GDAL licensing

[Tamas Szekeres]

I don't think if SWIG would determine how the generated wrappers are
licensed. Therefore I think the wrappers will inherit the license
style of the underlying project that is: MIT/X.
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license)

Best Regards,

Tamas


2006/11/24, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> Mir Hassan Ali wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > If I am using GDAL C# wrappers and MapScript C# wrappers in my
> > application then what will be the licensing issues? Do I need to make my
> > application open source?
>
> Mir,
>
> No.  MapServer and GDAL are under an MIT/X style license that allows for
> building proprietary applications on top of them.  I am not aware of any
> special licensing for the c# wrappers, so you should be fine.
>
> Best regards,
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