MapServer and GPL dependencies...

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US
Wed Nov 8 15:14:32 EST 2006


Thanks for the correction Paul- sorry about that.

Steve

>>> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> 11/8/2006 1:00:12 AM >>>
The client-side of PostGIS in mapserver is not GPL, nor is the libpq  
linking dependency, so you have no GPL linking issues with the  
PostGIS data source.

For AGG, you'll be linking to a GPL library, which means you won't be 

able to distribute BSD binaries anymore -- any binary linked against  
AGG will have to go out under the GPL.  Basically, if you only care  
about Mapserver as an open source product, it's no problem, but if  
you have any plans to distribute altered versions as closed source,  
you cannot do it with the AGG dependency turned on.

P

On 7-Nov-06, at 10:04 PM, 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



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