[geos-devel] Porting recent JTS contributions to GEOS

Bas Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Thu Mar 16 01:48:44 PDT 2017


On 2017-03-16 09:42, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:41:12AM +0100, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 2017-03-16 09:38, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> >I don't know why JTS copyright holders wanted to "eclipse" their
>> >license...
>> 
>> IIRC LocationTech requires projects under its umbrella to use 
>> permissive
>> licenses to be more business friendly.
> 
> We can see it's not being that friendly to our "business", is it ?

Correct. But it is more friendly to GPL averse big businesses like Apple 
and co. While Apple is not a member of LocationTech, Google and Oracle 
are and there are also not know to be fond of copyleft licenses.

Kind Regards,

Bas


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