[Incubator] PyWPS

[Jachym Cepicky]

Dear Peter,

for example me: I'm employed by Help Service -  Remote Sensing.
Therefore nearly all the time, I spend with PyWPS during my working day,
is paid  by this company. If the company would get some money through
sell of PyWPS code under nonGPL license, it would be reinvested back for
sure. I can provide anyone with concrete dates and times, I spend with
PyWPS two years back.

But the general idea is the same described in previous mails. And
concrete example  is Humboldt project development. Because the Humboldt
partners decided to use LGPL - they needed special copy of PyWPS. And
again, money from Humboldt project was used for further PyWPS
development (I can guarantee this, oh yes, I can) and so - this makes
perfectly sense (to me).

Of course, PyWPS developers, are informed and afaik they accepted it.
Any non-GPL dependency was removed from PyWPS source. 

Just for clarifying this

Jachym

Peter Baumann píše v Pá 12. 03. 2010 v 23:47 +0100:
> 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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