[gdal-dev] FLIF format?

[Newcomb, Doug]

Well, explicitly naming the LGPL and any other GPL compatible license
pretty much opens things up.
https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Doug

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:

> Check this commit 8 minutes ago:
>
> https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/commit/0c27016a775b5f01f3feb901874a5a45ed9aab1a
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> > On 4 October 2015 at 00:07, Craig Bruce <csbruce at cubewerx.com> wrote:
> >> On 2015-10-02 19:19, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> >>
> >> Why yes :). Slashdot...
> >>
> >> The scuttlebutt on Slashdot was about how this format is D.O.A. because
> the
> >> reference library is GPLv3-only, which is incompatible with everything
> else.
> >
> >
> > They have a reason/plan for that:
> >
> > "FLIF is currently licensed under the GNU GPL v3+. However, when the
> > project is more mature, we
> > (Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille, the primary authors of FLIF)
> > will want to release it under a more permissive license."
> >
> > https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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