[geos-devel] Porting recent JTS contributions to GEOS

[Even Rouault]

On jeudi 16 mars 2017 09:48:44 CET Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> 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.

What would be the problem of GEOS incorporating EPL derived code ? EPL is not 
incompatible with LGPL, is it ? GEOS could be a mix of LGPL + EPL, couldn't it ? People would 
have to respect the requirements of both licences.

Even


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