[Mapbender-users] Proposed License Simplification
Christian Wygoda
christian.wygoda at wheregroup.com
Tue Jul 15 00:44:21 PDT 2014
Hi Thomas,
the short story is that larger companies are sometimes a "little" uneasy
with using GPLed software, while MIT works with them.
The first great story is that we as WhereGroup are having such customers
and the second is that the MIT license is GPL compatible.
Both licenses are not forcing anyone to publish their changes like the
AGPL for example would, but the MIT license makes working in an
corporate environment definately easier. For us as Mapbender devs, for
WhereGroup bringing Open Source into these environments and for the
corporate customers gaining powerful Open Source software they are at
ease with.
If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
Christian
On 07/13/2014 07:37 PM, Thomas Baschetti wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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