[mapserver-users] Question about the License.

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> The license appears to be a stock MIT/X style license.  You may not
> "relicense" the provided source modules, nor may you hold the copyright
> holder liable for anything.  Other than that you can do whatever you want,
> including applying any license you choose to derivitive works, binaries
> built straight from the source and so forth.  This is the same license I
> use for GDAL.
> 


Just for the record, the MapServer license is not exactly a stock MIT/X
license... they modified the second paragraph.

The second paragraph of the official MIT/X license says:

 "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

and in the MapServer license it was modified to say:

 "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  included in all copies of this Software or works derived from
  this Software."

I don't think the modification affects our right to use, modify,
redistribute, etc., but I'm not a lawyer, so ...

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