[Liblas-devel] Drivers

[Mateusz Loskot]

Howard Butler wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Howard Butler wrote:
>>> LGPL wouldn't be the end of the world, but I think something like
>>>  this needs to be BSD to ensure wider proprietary software
>>> uptake. Individual drivers could be LGPL though.
>> 
>> In that case, Boost license would be even better than BSD. Boost 
>> project specified a few fundamental requirements about licensing:
>> 
>> http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#License
>> 
>> Next, they evaluated popular licenses if they address those 
>> requirements properly:
>> 
>> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License
>> 
>> BSD license was also compared
>> 
>> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Boost_License/BSD_License
>> 
>> The process concluded that there is no Open Source license that 
>> guarantees/helps to guarantee there are literally no obstacles in 
>> wide adoption of software in any use cases The Boost license is not
>>  restricted to use for Boost libraries.
> 
> Ok, I'm not so concerned about license at all

OK. I just thought it's important as you specified it as 1 of 2
requirements.

> as long as there is a collaborative project behind it with some
> weight.

OK

> I don't know if lidarformat (bad name IMO) has that yet.

Hobu, you seem becoming stricter and stricter about details ;-)

Cheers,
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