Le samedi 07 novembre 2009, Ravi a écrit : > How come ESRI uses GDAL too, does open source support closed source too.
Hi, It depends the OS Licence. GDAL licence is BSD-Like [1]. Some other are usinng GPL-LIKe licence. This kind of licence does not allow closed source to user open source licence. They need to "open" their source using a GPL-Like licence [2]. This is quiet complicated ;) Y. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License -- Yves Jacolin ------------- "Donner la liberté aux individus ne suffit pas, il faut aussi leur donner du pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir." M Gauchet "Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the power to use this freedom, to act". M Gauchet ------------- http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss