MapServer and GPL dependencies...

[Howard Butler]

It's unfortunate that they didn't go LGPL...  I'm not a licensing  
zealot, but it might be a problem for some folks using MapServer.  I  
suppose our transition to AGG would be gradual and people might  
initially have the option of not using AGG.  I'm concerned, however,  
that having parallel renderers, with one being functionally and  
qualitatively much better than the other will cause all of the  
development momentum to move toward AGG.  If that happens over the  
course of a couple of releases, do we effectively limit our licensing  
and deployment to GPL?

Howard

On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:04 AM, Steve Lime wrote:

> Hi folks: We've been looking at AGG as a possible alternative renderer
> to GD for some time now. One thing that has just popped up in the AGG
> camp is a license switch with it's latest release. It is now GPL.  I
> don't believe there's a reason to not consider AGG because of that
> (PostGIS is GPL), correct?
>
> Steve
>