[Incubator] PyWPS
Peter Baumann
p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
Fri Mar 12 17:47:00 EST 2010
hm, how would you pursue this in practice? Should a company open its
books, and for whom and to check what exactly?
My naive, admittedly pretty uneducated idea was that in this cosmos of
coexistence open source and business both are free, based only on the
licensing text and the contributor agreements. But maybe I misunderstood
something in this thread and misinterpret now.
-Peter
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>
>> I might be wrong on the details, but the spirit was "it's ok
>> as long as money it goes back into growing the project".
>>
>> The idea is, it would be a channel to allow entities that are
>> scared off by the GPL to support the project evolution nonetheless.
>>
>
> Andrea,
>
> I agree. Alternate licensing pursued by the PSC with resulting
> funds held on behalf of the project would seem reasonable to me.
>
> Best regards,
>
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