[postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!

[Mathieu Basille]

Le 11/18/2013 12:25 PM, Stephen Woodbridge a écrit :
> On 11/18/2013 12:20 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> On 18 November 2013 17:13, Pierre Racine <Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm a license ignorant.
>>
>> Release it into the public domain and
>> include a statement that you release all rights
>> adding "No rights reserved".
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>   +1 on this because it is the most friendly and can be used by everyone
> regardless of license that they are using. It absolutely has no license
> conflicts.

Although I'm a very big fan of public domain, it has its own limitations. 
For instance, some countries (randomly picked: France) do not allow one to 
declare its creation in the public domain. This is something that's granted 
from its nature (e.g. a representative speech or a math formula) or that is 
gained after a couple of decades after the death of the author (which is 
quite unlikely for PostGIS).

Instead, I would much favor explicit licenses, such as the much simple 
(2-clauses) BSD [1] or the Creative Common Zero [2]. Both of them give the 
user the maximum flexibility and make sure there is no license conflict 
afterwards. The BSD, my favorite, is also super easy to read and understand.

Sincerely,
Mathieu.


[1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

[2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/


>
> Best,
>    -Steve
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