[Mapbender-dev] Proposed License Simplification

[Astrid Emde]

Hello Christian,

thanks for the suggestion. I second the motion.

+1 for the License change

best regards Astrid

Am 10.07.2014 10:07, schrieb Christian Wygoda:
> Hello steering committee,
>
> as you know Mapbender (2.x and 3) is dual licensed under GNU GPL and
> simplified BSD license. In my opinion this is unneccecarily
> complicated, as everybode should be allowed to use and enhance the
> software, even with the freedom to not have to open-source their
> enhancements. While I encourage everyone to participate fully open in
> the development process I don't want to us to enforce it.
>
> So i would like to simplify the Mapbender3 licensing and suggest to
> publish Mapbender3 exclusively under the MIT license [1].
>
> We checked the licensing of the different modules and software we use
> for Mapbender3 and found only MIT compatible licenses. You will find
> list of the components and their licenses at the end of the email. I
> also added some links to the different licenses.
>
> So i start a motion to change the license of Mapbender3 to MIT license
> alone and ask the steering committee to vote until 25.07.2014.
>
> I therefore opt with +1 for the aforementioned proposal.
>
> Cheers,
>     Christan Wygoda - project chair
>
> Mapbender Components
> ===============
> symfony/symfony (MIT license)
> doctrine/orm (MIT license)
> doctrine/doctrine-bundle (MIT license)
> twig/extensions (MIT license)
> symfony/assetic-bundle (MIT license)
> symfony/swiftmailer-bundle (MIT license)
> symfony/monolog-bundle (MIT license)
> sensio/distribution-bundle (MIT license)
> sensio/framework-extra-bundle (MIT license)
> sensio/generator-bundle (MIT license)
> jms/security-extra-bundle (Apache License 2)
> jms/di-extra-bundle (Apache License 2)
> friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle (MIT license)
> kriswallsmith/buzz (MIT license)
> doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle (MIT license)
> toooni/fpdf (Apache License 2)
> arsgeografica/signing (LGPL)
> OpenLayers (2-clause BSD License)
> jQuery (MIT license)
> jQuery UI (MIT license)
> jQuery.blockUI (dual: MIT License/GPL)
> MapQuery (MIT license)
> Proj4JS (MIT license)
> Backbone.js (MIT license)
> Underscore.js (MIT license)
> Codemirror (MIT license)
> Font Awesome
> * Fonts: (SIL Open Font License)
> * Code: (MIT license)
> Doctrine (LGPL)
>
> Links:
> [1] MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
> [2] simified BSD/2-clause BSD:
> http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> [3] LGPL: http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license
> [4] Apache license 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
> [5] SIL Open Font License:
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL