Dear Maria, Hopefully the choice of license for a project, or in this case choices for licenses by a group of projects are not cause for outrage. Each project will choose what makes sense to them, and that's a great thing.
This is very common. Apache has chosen the Apache license. Mozilla the MPL. Eclipse was EPL focused for a while, but now allows a bunch of choice and that list keeps growing. For what it's worth, these choices are rarely made out of ignorance. It is the viral nature of the GPL & AGPL that keeps projects using those licenses out if LocationTech & Eclipse for now. That may change, or not, in response to the members and projects that govern want in time. Personally, I understand all license choice perspectives, and respect them. I say this as someone who's been making a living in FOSS for 25 years. Hope this helps a bit, Andrea On November 13, 2015 9:45:23 AM GMT+01:00, "María Arias de Reyna" <delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:41 AM, María Arias de Reyna ><delawen+os...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I answer myself, yes, they filter by name. And explicitly forbid GPL >licenses: >> https://www.locationtech.org/faq-questions-inline >> >> Which licenses does LocationTech allow? >> >> The following licenses are allowed at LocationTech without special >approval: >> >> EPL >> EDL (BSD) >> MIT >> Apache v2 >> >> Other licenses might be considered based on approval of the >> LocationTech Steering Committee and Eclipse Foundation board. >> >> >> >> The following licenses are not allowed at LocationTech: >> >> AGPL >> GPL (v2 & v3) >> >> > >For me this is a major outrage, but I understand that OSGeo is focused >on open software, not on free software. (Remember: free includes open, >open doesn't include free). > >So I would understand collaborations between LocationTech and OSGeo, >where open is the key and not freedom. And we have found a big >difference between both organizations: we are more open and more free. >Maybe they still believe that they cannot do bussiness over GPL >derived licenses. And as wrong as they are, if their main focus is on >bussiness, it is understandable they are afraid of freedom. >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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