[geos-devel] Porting recent JTS contributions to GEOS

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Sat Apr 1 09:55:44 PDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:17:15PM -0700, Martin Davis wrote:
> The selling feature of moving to LocationTech and relicensing to a
> business-friendly license was that companies would then throw money at JTS
> to make it bigger and better.  That will probably start happening any day
> now...

Are we (as a community) reacher yet ?

> The intent was definitely not to cut off the ability to keep GEOS alive and
> well and in synch with JTS.  I really hope there will be no legal issues
> with continuing to port changes.
> 
> I'll get in touch with LocationTech legal to get an opinion on this.

Any answer ?
Or are them too busy handling the load of money thrown by
restrictive software license owners to friendly packages ?


--strk;


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