Morning: Normally I play with technical debt; today I have some communication dept to catch up on.
During a recent tender response LISAsoft had a tough time explaining the ways in which additional modules can be added to GeoServer. Some years ago we had the idea of making the dispatch system GPL+Classpath while strictly keeping core service modules (WMS, WFS, WCS) as GPL. The idea here is to allowing others to use GeoServer like a fancy Spring system that does OWS service dispatch in additional to URL remapping etc...). If this is still a possibility it would really help in future efforts (well Mark Leslie did the work but I watched him suffer). In the interest of balance - I also will note that my recent trip to Perth highlighted an unexpected benifit of GPL. Because the license is so nice and clear it apparently cuts through lots of red tape allowing developers to contribute code back promptly (rather than months of talking to legal departments). Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
