[OpenLayers-Dev] GeoJson Service question

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, August 13, 2010, Pieter De Graef <pieter.degraef at geosparc.com> wrote:
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>   On Friday, August 13, 2010, Pieter De Graef <pieter.degraef at geosparc.com> <pieter.degraef at geosparc.com> wrote:
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>     Thanks Bart,
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> I think that's it. I'll look at example implementations first and get
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> Hi Pieter.
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> OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP now fully supports the MapFish HTTP
> interfaces (a.k.a. the MapFish Protocol), defined at
> <http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/MapFishProtocol>. MapFish
> and FeatureServer share the same HTTP interfaces. So if you develop
> web services that respect these interfaces (in Geomajas or anywhere
> else) you and your users could just use Protocol.HTTP and
> Format.GeoJSON without any modification or extension to OpenLayers.
> And going that path would lead to some compatibility across our server
> implementations, which would probably be a good thing.
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> Hope it makes sense.
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> Sure does. But what about rights/licenses? Can I create such a service
> without having to adopt MapFish license (GPL?)

No license/copyright issue at all.

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