[geos-devel] Alternative licensing for GEOS

[Howard Butler]

James,

The answer to the question of the possibility of relicensing GEOS is "no"
with near 100% certainty. There are a few significant GEOS contributors who
are steadfast in their contribution only being released as LGPL software.

This question has come up a few other times and there's never been any
movement on the topic.

I personally think the answer is to take any needed features from the
recently relicensed JTS and continue efforts to port them over into Boost
Geometry Library. BGL doesn't have parity with GEOS at the moment, but it
is still getting contribution and attention. Significant corporate
attention, contribution, and resources are needed to change the situation
in any meaningful way.

Howard


On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:59 AM, James Turner <james.turner at weather.com>
wrote:

> Good day,
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>    We would like to use the GeoSwift framework in our existing proprietary
> iOS application. It is offered under an MIT license, but it in turn uses
> the GEOS library, which is LGPL. We would like to know if alternative
> licensing is available for GEOS, as the object distribution requirements
> for the LGPL don’t really make any sense in iOS applications.
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> *James Turner*
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> iOS Developer
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> *w:* (978) 483-0793 *e:* james.turner at weather.com
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