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

[Anton Patrushev]

Anyway, what do you think may an advantage of using dual MIT/GPL
license (except of OpenGraphRouter integration)?

> 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?

Yep, looks like some job for PSC :)

Anton.

On 6/3/11, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> wrote:
> 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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