[mapguide-internals] License status of MapGuide Open Source and FDO

[Jackie Ng]

Hi David,

Thanks for the update. Cheers.

- Jackie

On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 18:29, David Ji <david.ji at autodesk.com> wrote:

> Hi Jackie,
>
>
>
> The same conclusion also applies to MapGuide open source, it will still be
> under LGPL 2.1, sorry I didn’t mention that in my previous mail. We are now
> working on replacing this wrong copyrights with the original LGPL 2.1
> statements, stay tuned. Sorry for the inconvinience.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
>
>
> *From: *Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4:26 PM
> *To: *David Ji <david.ji at autodesk.com>
> *Cc: *"mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org" <
> mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org>, Simon Liu <simon.liu at autodesk.com>
> *Subject: *Re: License status of MapGuide Open Source and FDO
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification on the license status of FDO.
>
>
>
> Is this the same for MapGuide Open Source?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> - Jackie
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 18:20, David Ji <david.ji at autodesk.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jackie,
>
>
>
> Sorry for this confuse. I can quickly make a clarification.
>
>
>
> LGPL 2.1 will continue to be the license for FDO open source project, we
> will make a change quickly for the headers to mitigate this
> misunderstanding.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
>
>
> *From: *Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4:03 PM
> *To: *"mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org" <
> mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Cc: *Christine Bao <Christine.Bao at autodesk.com>, Simon Liu <
> simon.liu at autodesk.com>, David Ji <david.ji at autodesk.com>
> *Subject: *License status of MapGuide Open Source and FDO
>
>
>
> To whom it may concern at Autodesk that still gets/reads emails from these
> mailing lists (I've also cc'd in emails of some adsk devs I know to still
> be making commits).
>
>
>
> Today I saw several commits made in the MapGuide SVN repo (example:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/changeset/9868
> <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrac.osgeo.org%2Fmapguide%2Fchangeset%2F9868&data=04%7C01%7Cdavid.ji%40autodesk.com%7C4174ada1891e4f7c77ff08d979b4a73a%7C67bff79e7f914433a8e5c9252d2ddc1d%7C0%7C0%7C637674639687039175%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=70bsrdiLcD9rVDA6wFJXsfD2MX2bXSuNQ3GXxaYPV0c%3D&reserved=0>)
> which changed the standard LGPL 2.1 header of some files to the
> following text:
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>
>
> // (C) Copyright 2021 by Autodesk, Inc.
> //
> // The information contained herein is confidential, proprietary
> // to Autodesk,  Inc.,  and considered a trade secret as defined
> // in section 499C of the penal code of the State of California.
> // Use of  this information  by  anyone  other  than  authorized
> // employees of Autodesk, Inc.  is granted  only under a written
> // non-disclosure agreement,  expressly  prescribing  the  scope
> // and manner of such use.
>
>
>
> I am not a legal expert, but a basic reading of this text suggests to me
> that Autodesk is intending to "close off" the /sandbox/adsk/trunk branch
>
>
>
> Up until now, I have been adopting a policy of cherry picking any worthy
> fixes from this branch into mapguide trunk.
>
>
>
> Having seen this legal text be introduced into this branch, I now must ask
> this question:
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> Is /sandbox/adsk/trunk no longer licensed under LGPL 2.1? If so, what date
> did this change of license take effect?
>
>
>
> Having asked this question about MapGuide, I now must ask the same
> question for FDO and its "commercial" branch (/sandbox/adsk/main) and
> whether this statement from David Ji (david.ji at autodesk.com) made to
> fdo-internals on August 5, 2019 is still relevant (key parts underlined):
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We would like to reiterate Autodesk commitment regarding this Open Source project.
>
> FDO is and will continue to be a key component to AutoCAD Map 3D, Autodesk Civil 3D and Autodesk InfraWorks products and Autodesk will continue contributing to this project. Our focus will be but not limited to defect fixing, 3rd party upgrade, Visual Studio migration and more. * All the commits will be submitted to an ADSK branch, so everybody can see and leverage those*.
>
> At the same time, we would like to delegate to the community decisions on which commits they would like to merge from ADSK to a Trunk branch. This delegation would not detract from our commitment to this project but to rather encourage more contributors to be involved in this open source project.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
>
>
> I would like clarification from Autodesk on this matter as soon as
> possible.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> - Jackie
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