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

Thu Jun 2 21:59:01 EDT 2011

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

> 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 :)
>

You're PSC ;-)
I think that thing was a nice try last year, but can't be really called a
success for whatever reason.

Anyway, other thread.

>
> 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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> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
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