[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2515: change licensing to GPL2+

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Tue Oct 22 02:20:33 PDT 2013


#2515: change licensing to GPL2+
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 Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey
     Type:  task     |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:         
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  2.0.x  
 Keywords:           |  
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 The current core of PostGIS is licensed as GPL2 _only_.
 In turn this makes it illegal to distribute a PostGIS version built with
 SFCGAL support in, as SFCGAL links against LGPL3+ licensed CGAL library.
 See https://github.com/Oslandia/SFCGAL/issues/34

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