[mapguide-internals] Future Development Options for Web Server Extensions and new High Performance Viewer

[Trevor Wekel]

I agree 100% with Dave.  But I am going to play devils advocate a bit.

Autodesk is still the primary contributor to the MapGuide Open Source code base.  It would be better if  they received value from and fully supported any contributions from the open source community.  After all, they have LGPL'd a huge amount of code under the OSGeo umbrella.

Perhaps I am a little jaded being an ex-Desker but I personally would like to see Autodesk receive more return on the investment they have made in MapGuide Open Source.  A vibrant community making significant contributions to the code base with RFCs and bug fixes is an excellent way for them to receive ROI.

I think we are getting there!

Thanks,
Trevor

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave McIlhagga [dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca]
Sent: December 23, 2009 8:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Future Development Options for Web Server     Extensions and new High Performance Viewer

The MapGuide project is managed by the Project Steering Committee (PSC) which includes a non-majority of Autodesk employees.

Like any open source projects -- you can make any changes and improvements to the technologies. You can even distribute these changes without any approval as long as you do so within the terms of the LGPL (the project license).  However, if you want these changes to be included in the project core, it is up to the PSC to determine if these changes would be acceptable.

Although Autodesk did play a major role in the establishment of the foundation, OSGeo is completely independent of Autodesk, and has been setup intentionally in this manner.

Dave




On 2009-12-23, at 10:49 AM, carlj wrote:

>
> Could I just ask about the relationship between "The Open Source Geospaitial
> Foundation" and Autodesk.
>
> There are a selection of APIs provided for FDO. I note the namespaces used
> for both MapGuide and FDO APIs use classes in the OSGeo namespace. That
> would imply to me that "The Open Source Geospaitial Foundation" is the owner
> of the API and not Autodesk.
>
> If this is the case would that mean that any member can create their own
> implementation of the API as long as it complies with the API and behaves as
> described.
>
> Does that mean that technically someone like me could create their own
> implementation of the API? Is there a verification process to certify that
> the API is compliant with the Geospatial Foundation standards?
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