[Incubator] two different xGPL licences in one project?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Mar 11 18:09:49 EST 2010


Peter Baumann wrote:
> Hi listers,
> 
> we have two OS projects:
> - the rasdaman raster DBMS which is domain neutral (www.rasdaman.org);
> this is GPL
> - the PetaScope add-on to rasdaman which offers OGC conformant
> interfaces (www.petascope.org); this is LGPL
> 
> Experience shows that this is confusing for our community, and I would
> love to merge them both, whereby mergin means: hosting under the same
> URL and having a single installation procedure.
> 
> Q: Is that possible given the two different licence models? Any special
> measures to be taken?

Peter,

I don't forsee any insurmountable problems, but it will be important to
keep the distinction between the two parts pretty clear so folks know
what license applies to what portion.

Best regards,
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