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

[Pierre Racine]

I guess the fact that PL/pgSQL is not compiled and hence is open "by nature" should have an incidence on the choice of the license. No?

I bend toward GPL in any case...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Pierre Racine
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:45 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!
> 
> I knew we would fall into a license nightmare... So far we've got suggestions
> for "No rights reserved", BSD, Creative Common Zero, GPL, LGPL, MIT...
> 
> Any of these license would make it hard to move a function from the Add-
> ons to PostGIS core? That would be a good candidate for elimination.
> 
> Why people do not like the PostGIS GPL?
> 
> Pierre
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users-
> > bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Basille
> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:04 PM
> > To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!
> >
> > 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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> > --
> >
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> > Mathieu Basille, PhD
> >
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> >
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