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

[Stephen Mather]

How could we avoid a license discussion... :) .  I think there are two
relevant points from the discussion:

1) It should be licensed such that it can go into core if such an option
for some or all functions reveals itself in the future

2) It should be flexible enough for wide reuse.

#1 precludes all licenses not GPL compatible.  #2 precludes the GPL.

IMHO, It's fine (actually wonderful) that postgis is in the GPL, it
protects the project and does not really limit its use in any substantive
way.  It's big enough to stand on its own.  But re: #2 GPL would limit the
wide use of these scripts.

If all the above is true, then what are the options?  MIT and CC-0?  I
don't know, but someone on this list does... .

Best,
Steve



On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Pierre Racine
<Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>wrote:

> 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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> > > --
> > >
> > > ~$ whoami
> > > Mathieu Basille, PhD
> > >
> > > ~$ locate --details
> > > University of Florida \\
> > > Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center
> > > (+1) 954-577-6314
> > > http://ase-research.org/basille
> > >
> > > ~$ fortune
> > > « Le tout est de tout dire, et je manque de mots
> > > Et je manque de temps, et je manque d'audace. »
> > >   -- Paul Éluard
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