MapServer and Foundation naming

[Paul Spencer]

I can't see the license of MapServer changing (modified MIT X11 I  
think) so my guess is that this type of sharing will only happen as  
the licenses permit it.  The LGPL is certainly less restrictive that  
the GPL so libraries of code could probably be shared if they are  
used as a whole piece, but copying only some lines of code from the  
code base would probably be against the license.


On 30-Nov-05, at 4:59 PM, Attila Csipa wrote:

> 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.
>

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