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

[Stephen Mather]

Oh, I prefer GPL, and in this case, since it's uncompiled code it probably
doesn't matter.  I just know lots of people belly ache about the GPL, so
I'm trying to insert that perspective... .  :)


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Pierre Racine
<Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>wrote:

> > 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.
>
> How would GPL limit the wide use of these scripts? I find it's ok that any
> derivative be licensed the same way. It doesn't force a using software to
> be completely under GPL, just the derivative scripts of those scripts. It
> seems to me that the fact that PL/pgSQL is open by nature makes it very
> easy to redistribute these files or any derivative with the same license
> without limiting the rest of the software to be under any other kind of
> license. Does that make sense?
>
> Pierre
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