MapServer and Foundation naming

[Attila Csipa]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 19:27, P Kishor wrote:
> It is still not clear what exactly will Autodesk's codebase contribute
> to the MapServer codebase, if anything at all. Will it, won't it? Will
> it forever be a separate but equal product? Why does it even need the
> MapServer foundation?

>Daniel wrote:
>Some of the benefits of both projects working together will be sharing 
>of underlying libraries and code. Some obvious ones are the FDO/OGR/GDAL 
>data access libs, but there will be more over time.

Withe regard to the licensing issue, I for one would like to hear the stance 
on this, too. You see, the Autodesk product was released under LGPL and 
Mapserver under a very different license. Using the _code_ (as in not whole 
libraries) from the autodesk offering would necessitate the change of 
Mapserver licensing, or am I wrong on this one ? I'm not sure the 
ramifications of this are all that apparent - MapServer had a much more free 
(IIRC BSD style) license. Many of you may not have followed the discussions 
but this is gaining importance as the upcoming GPL v3 has some important 
changes wrt web applications.