[Mapserver-users] mapserver licence

[Thomas E Burk]

>
>Dear Users
>
>Is there any name for the licence for Mapserver. For eg, systems like GRASS 
>GIS, MySQL and PostGIS are distributed under GNU GPL.
>
>I am aware that the license is at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/license.html.
>
>It does however state that it is available free of charge with access to the 
>source code and gives the user to use copy , modify, distribute and sell 
>copies of the software but there is no name for it !!.
>

It is a slight modification of the MIT license 
<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>. We didn't feel 
constrained to use a specific license verbatim.

Tom
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