[gdal-dev] Driver maintenance - long-term solution ?

Nyall Dawson nyall.dawson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 14:28:44 PST 2021


On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 06:24, David Strip <gdal at stripfamily.net> wrote:
> What is the path forward?  One path Howard suggests is establishing a foundation similar to that behind Qgis. Another alternative, probably far more controversial, is a license change.

I'm pretty clueless regarding licenses -- but this is an interesting
thought. I wonder if any new drivers added to GDAL could be done with
a dual-licensing under both GPL + some other license which requires
ongoing sponsorship of the GDAL project?

Nyall


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