[Mapbender-users] Proposed License Simplification
Thomas Baschetti
info at thomas-baschetti.de
Tue Jul 15 10:22:40 PDT 2014
Hi Christian,
thanks for your clarification.
As noted, i can live with MIT license, so go ahead.
And yes, larger companies... ;-)
Thomas
Am 15.07.2014 09:44, schrieb Christian Wygoda:
> 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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