MapServer and AGG licences

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

There was a very informative discussion on the MapServer-Dev 
mailing-list about a MapServer vs AGG 2.5 licence compatibility. In 
short I think it reads like the following. Note that AGG 2.4 has no 
licence issue with MapServer since it was a BSD licence.

> "For AGG, you'll be linking to a GPL library, which means you won't be
> able to distribute BSD binaries anymore -- any binary linked against
> AGG will have to go out under the GPL. Basically, if you only care
> about Mapserver as an open source product, it's no problem, but if
> you have any plans to distribute altered versions as closed source,
> you cannot do it with the AGG dependency turned on."

and

> If one distributes MapServer linked with a GPL AGG I *think* you are
> required to provide MapServer under GPL terms.  Because there is no
> one contributor who has rights to alter MapServer licensing terms I
> believe the distributor would be in violation of the AGG GPL terms.

See:
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0710&L=mapserver-dev&D=1&T=0&O=D&X=4DEC7415D8C7791480&P=12919

Julien
PS: There was no discussion of re-licencing MapServer.

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Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com/