[geos-devel] Permisive licence for GEOS?

[Paul Ramsey]

Short answer: not really. Re-licensing would require approval of every
copyright holder and there are several who have been pretty clear in
their opposition to re-licensing, so it's not going to happen. Why not
ask Apple to change their T&C instead?

P.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Robin Fawcett
<Robin.Fawcett at ubisense.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way in which GEOS can be provided with a permissive  licence
> such as MIT or BSD instead of LGPL?
>
> We develop an enterprise web mapping product which  uses GEOS. We are
> currently building an iPad version to work offline.  Apple's T's & C's
> permit FOSS but prohibit the use of GPL based licences, so this is a
> roadblock for us.
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> Thanks for your understanding about these terms which are outside our
> control.
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> Robin
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