[mapserver-dev] MapServer Incubation Status

[Steve Lime]

Has anyone taken a peek the "GOVERNMENT USE:" part? It looks to me like text required by the
U.S. government and it doesn't impact other use of the software. In other words, it's a non-issue.

Steve

>>> On 7/16/2008 at 2:09 PM, in message
<d2b988930807161209q5c6dee29xdc6d0303fe0bd7db at mail.gmail.com>, "thomas bonfort"
<thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
> updated doc with
> mapagg.h
> mapagg.cpp
> mapchart.c
> maptclutf.c
> maprgbapng.c
> 
> could knowledgeable people (probably from the US) have a look at the
> header in maptclutf.c and comment on the "Government Use" part?
> thanks,
> thomas
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
>> Oh so close... Just need to finish the last few pieces of the provenance 
> review. I've updated the
>> incubation status page:
>>
>>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapServer_incubation_status 
>>
>> and spent a couple of hours going through the provenance spreadsheet I 
> started (via Google):
>>
>>  http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3ovxbvq1mBuBRaJiIT14eA&gid=1 
>>
>> Very few things are left to document and no major IP issues have surfaced. 
> Supporting files for
>> PHP/MapScript and language-specific SWIG modules still need to be tracked but 
> that's shouldn't
>> cause issues, just more busy work. I don't know that it's worth review of 
> things like msautotest,
>> demos or test suites.
>>
>> Devs, PLEASE take a look through the spreadsheet and update your stuff (let 
> me know if you need
>> access).
>>
>> Biggest obstacle to graduation is that the MapServer license is not OSI 
> certified. I don't think that
>> can be changed with the UMN as a primary copyright holder and I have no 
> interest in trying to get
>> them to assign copyright.
>>
>> Steve
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