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

[Daniel Kastl]

2011/6/3 Kishore Kumar <justjkk at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> A quick question. I googled for PSC but couldn't find what it means. Is it
> a formal club of people working on a project?
>

Project Steering Committee

It's something that OSGeo for example requires to apply for project
incubation.

Daniel



>
> Thanks & Regards,
> J Kishore kumar.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Stephen Woodbridge <
> woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/2/2011 11:18 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/6/3 Anton Patrushev <anton.patrushev at georepublic.de
>>> <mailto:anton.patrushev at georepublic.de>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     > There was some talk about merging with PostGIS. Is anything
>>>    happening on that front or is that dead?
>>>
>>>    Looks more like it's dead so far.
>>>
>>>
>>> In my opinion it is not. Because it wasn't more than a first idea and
>>> the earliest time would have been PostGIS 2.1 anyway. So I guess there
>>> is still plenty of time and it's more up to pgRouting to do the
>>> necessary work.
>>>
>>> If integration into PostGIS is a goal, then changing or adding a license
>>> isn't a topic, right?
>>>
>>
>> I think the bigger question is is the purpose of integrating with PostGIS?
>> This is not to challenge whether not not we should do this, only to get a
>> better understanding of the reasons and to validate them.
>>
>> Do we think it will get us more development? How and Why do we believe
>> this would happen?
>>
>> Do we think it would improve the product from a technical, marketing,
>> management, funding or other point of view? How and Why do we believe this
>> would happen?
>>
>> Some other assumptions that we might have?
>>
>> So there is a good president for project consoldation, in that
>> mod_geocache and tinyOWS are small projects that are in the process of
>> moving their provenance and management under the mapserver PSC. Both of
>> these projects provide functionality that are commonly needed by mapserver
>> users and smoothing the integration and coordinating releases adds some
>> value to the mapserver users and hopefully some of the mapserver developers
>> will get involved with these projects.
>>
>> So back to your question of licensing ... As long as the license is not in
>> conflict with the PostGIS licensing then it should not be a problem. For
>> example today you use boost graph which has a permissive license like MIT-X
>> and this is not a problem. If we moved all the core algorithm development
>> into something like opengraphrouter and then wrote pgRouting wrappers to
>> integrate it it would be the same as what you have now.
>>
>> But there would be a huge advantage to the permissive licensing if you
>> remember a while back there was some discussion with Ingres database, or we
>> might want to integrate into mysql, sqlite, spatialite or just write
>> standalone routing daemons. Having license flexibility makes this much
>> easier.
>>
>> Ok, so we don't want to hassle with re-licensing pgRouting, then if we can
>> prove that opengraphrouter code can be integrated into pgrouting then we
>> could look at what to would take to replicate the existing functionality in
>> opengraphrouter and wrap that back into pgrouting and then continue core
>> algorithm development there and use the pgrouting PSC as the governing body
>> for this work.
>>
>> We have a way to go to prove this, but Ashraf is willing to work on this
>> to prove that we can do it.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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