[Mapbender-users] Proposed License Simplification

[Thomas Baschetti]

Hi,

i must admit i'm quite happy with Mapbender being GPL'ed. Is there any
real/actual need for a license change?

but, i can live with MIT, so i vote
0 for a license change

Thomas




On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Christian Wygoda <
christian.wygoda at wheregroup.com> wrote:

> 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
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