[pgrouting-dev] Licensing for Co-development between OpenGraphRouter and pgRouting

[Daniel Kastl]

2011/6/3 Anton Patrushev <anton.patrushev at georepublic.de>

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Doesn't this statement
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>  * (at your option) any later version.
> assume later (i.e. v3) versions?
>

Well, this doesn't mean it's v3, no? It's the license text of version 2, I
think.



>
> I support getting rid of CGAL, but I don't think that PostGIS hulls
> fit all possible cases of Driving Distance use.
>

http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_concavehull.snippet
It even supports "wholes", so I think it's even better.

Maybe worth to discuss this in a new thread, but having Jay and Kishore
working on new algorithms, it might be time to think about a function
"cleanup" and version pgRouting 2.0. Don't you agree?

It doesn't need to be all new, but function names and wrappers could be
reorganized, pgRouting could be checked for compatibility with PostGIS 2.0
and Steve's idea to provide functions that return the "raw data" is also a
good idea.

Daniel



>
> Anton.
>
> On 6/3/11, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> wrote:
> > 2011/6/3 Anton Patrushev <anton.patrushev at georepublic.de>
> >
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> I believe pgRouting is under GPLv3 - I think we changed from v2 last
> >> year. For me GPL/MIT dual licensing looks a bit strange, I mean I
> >> can't imagine a case when one would prefer GPL.
> >>
> >
> > No, it hasn't changed.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> MIT is GPL compatible and I see no problem with PostGIS which is also
> >> under
> >> GPL.
> >>
> >> By the way, we already have GPL/QPL compatibility issue :)
> >>
> >
> > I would like to remove CGAL dependency and just return points for driving
> > distance.
> > With PostGIS 2.0 there is also support for concave hull. Then CGAL isn't
> > necessary anymore to calculate the drive time polygon.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Anton.
> >>
> >> On 5/27/11, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi PSC,
> >> >
> >> > I have been talking with Roni about doing more development for
> >> > OpenGraphRouter and to possible integrate that with pgRouting. The
> first
> >> > issue I see is that of licensing. OpenGraphRouter is using an MIT-X
> >> > style license (and wants to stay that way) and I believe pgRouting is
> >> > using a GPLv2 License.
> >> >
> >> > So I think this means we can move OpenGraphRouter code into pgRouting,
> >> > which would make that code dual licensed, ie code used in pgRouting
> >> > would become GPLv2, but the original in OpenGraphRouter would remain
> >> > MIT-X, but we could not move pgRouting code into OpenGraphRouter.
> >> >
> >> > One of my goals as we move forward is that code we develop should be
> >> > have a reference implementation in a command line tool in
> >> > OpenGraphRouter and a reference implementation with in pgRouting.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thoughts on the licensing
> issues?
> >> >
> >> > Would there be any interest in supporting a similar dual licensing in
> >> > pgRouting? This might not be possible because Postgresql/PostGIS
> >> licensing.
> >> >
> >> > Frank, Paul, can you comment please.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >    -Steve
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> >>
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