[MetaCRS] Proj4js license

Michael Adair madair at dmsolutions.ca
Thu Apr 5 10:04:03 EDT 2012


Thank you everyone for your replies, I have made  the change and will 
send out an email about the new release soon.

Mike

On 02/04/2012 1:17 PM, Olivier Terral wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> No problem  for me. I'm fine with the change of license.
>
> Olivier
>
>
> Le 2 avril 2012 16:35, Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com 
> <mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>     On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Michael Adair
>     <madair at dmsolutions.ca <mailto:madair at dmsolutions.ca>> wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > An issue over the Proj4js license was raised on the OpenLayers
>     mailing list,
>     > basically someone can't use it because of the LGPL license.  I'm
>     not sure
>     > why that license was chosen but it probably came as a carry-over
>     from the
>     > MapBuilder project.  The intention for has always been for there
>     to be no
>     > restrictions on using the library, so I'm proposing changing the
>     Proj4js
>     > license to use the MIT license.
>     >
>     > Comments?
>     >
>     > Mike
>
>
>     Mike,
>
>     I'm fine with the change of license. But do not interpret this as an
>     endorsement of your handling of the project, which I am still very
>     unhappy with.
>
>     Olivier Terral and Andreas Hocevar committed code to the original CSCS
>     project and should be included in this discussion.
>
>     Rich
>
>     --
>     Richard Greenwood
>     richard.greenwood at gmail.com <mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com>
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