I would like to push in this direction as well. One of the things I have been finding out as I travel around lately talking to people using GeoServer is that folks are actually using the geoserver plugin system to write their own custom modules. Unfortunately they don;t always talk to us about it but they are indeed doing so.
Jody Garnett wrote: > 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 -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
