[PROJ] EPSG (was: Code of conduct)

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Note: my concern is only about EPSG dataset. Everything else in PROJ 
look all clean for every parts I'm familiar with.

Le 18/10/2019 à 15:00, Howard Butler a écrit :

> Any activity from IOGP isn't going to change PROJ's project situation 
> in regard to OSGeo incubation. While this is an issue to monitor, it 
> isn't one to hold things up.
>
It depends if a graduation goal is to assert that PROJ is legally clean. 
If yes, then I see this choice:

  * PROJ can redistribute EPSG dataset under EPSG Terms of Use.
  * If PROJ wants to relicense EPSG dataset (i.e. suppress EPSG Terms of
    Use and put MIT license in place, which is my understanding of
    ticket #2268 [1]), then we need IOGP explicit authorization. Most
    OpenSource licenses do not allow relicensing neither (except by the
    author); even the MIT license does not allow that (note: MIT allows
    sub-licensing, but this is different than re-licensing).

If resolving legal issues is not a graduation goal, then indeed my 
remark is not relevant to the graduation process.

     Martin

[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2268

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