[Geomoose-users] Copyright Infringement Issue

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

E,

Adding to what Jim said, yes it IS copyrighted (which is a good thing), but the License explicitly gives you permission to use as long as you follow the licensing rules which are for the most part straight forward to follow.


Bobb



From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of James Klassen
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:40 PM
To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Copyright Infringement Issue

First, I cannot give legal advice, so you are on your own there.  Second, I object to your email subject as being FUD.

GeoMoose IS copyrighted material.  The license that GeoMoose is distributed under is available in the LICENSE file in every download, near the top of the source files, and on the GeoMoose website [1].   GeoMoose and OpenLayers are both OSGeo Projects, so another place to look is at the requirements for a project to pass OSGeo Incubation [2].

Most other open source projects are similar.

[1] http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

Jim Klassen

On 2014/1/29 12:49 PM, Ed Boesenberg wrote:
Hello All,

I have been trying to convince the Board of Directors of the company I work for to let me engage current customers and possibly new customers to setup GeoMoose type web applications and other similar type web applications based on OpenLayers.  The Board is reluctant because of copyright infringement.  Their argument is how can I prove that GeoMoose and OpenLayers is not infringing upon other copyrighted material.  They considered getting a patent attorney to review my code\GeoMoose code but they aren't able to justify the cost.

How can I prove my argument that GeoMoose and similar open source code is not copyright material?

Thanks,

E




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