[OpenLayers-Dev] Regarding licensing

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Kenneth,

the BSD license is liberal, allowing you to make use of OpenLayers in  
pretty much any way you want.  Giving visible credit to the developers  
is considered polite behaviour, but I think all you are required to do  
is maintain copyright notices for OpenLayers and the other libraries  
it builds on in your code or any portion thereof.

If you wish to contribute to the project, you may complete a  
contributors license agreement found at:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute

Cheers

Paul

On 16-Apr-08, at 4:34 AM, Lind, Kenneth wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I am not sure this is the correct list to post this questions but  
> here we go.
>
> I wonder about the licensing of the openlayers for using as part in  
> a commercial portfolio, is there any limits to what we can do with  
> the product regarding using it in customer projects (just to  
> clearify, we don’t intend to sell it as a product, just use it with  
> customer developed solutions)? We will of course take responsibility  
> towards the customer regarding bugs and support as well as giving  
> code back to the project in any way we can. We will also not try to  
> hide the fact that we use openlayers and give credit to the  
> developers of this great solution. Is there anything else that we  
> should be aware of regarding licensing?
>
> We don’t have any problem with the bsd license that I am aware of.  
> I am just curious if there is any additions to this base license.
>
> And as a second question. What are the rules for giving code back to  
> the project? Anything specific we should consider here, since we are  
> a commercial company?
>
> Best Regards
> /Kenneth
>
>
>
> Kenneth Lind
> GIS/ITS Consultant
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