[mapguide-users] Moving to MGOS from AIMS

[Ricardo Pinho]

Hi,
> if the licensing is problematic, perhaps we should review it.

Changing Mapguide *OS license from LGPL to GPL or AGPL* could be a good
point to take to the current Project Steering Committee
<http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html> !!!
[Bob Bray (Chair), Bruce Dechant, Tom Fukushima, Haris Kurtagic, Jackie Ng,
Paul Spencer, Zac Spitzer, Trevor Wekel]

But I'm not sure if that is even legally possible, because of the *copyleft
condition* of LGPL 2.1 <http://mapguide.osgeo.org/lgpl.html>
https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-2.1/


*Primarily used for software libraries, the GNU LGPL requires that derived
works be licensed under the same license, but works that only link to it do
not fall under this restriction*
The new LGPL-3.0, seems to have corrected this, allowing to change LGPL3 to
GPL3
https://choosealicense.com/licenses/lgpl-3.0/
*Permissions of this copyleft license are conditioned on making available
complete source code of licensed works and modifications under the same
license or the GNU GPLv3*.

Good luck!
Cheers.

2018-01-16 21:59 GMT+00:00 GordonL <gordon.luckett at arrowgeomatics.com>:

> Yes.  It's all part of the same commitment.
>
> Yes we want more people to adopt it.
>
> Yes we free software developers should support each other.
>
> Yes if the licensing is problematic, perhaps we should review it.
>
> The future of MapGuide still requires the active participation of its
> developers, users, teachers and integrators - all of us.
>
>
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