Martin Desruisseaux ha scritto: > Adrian Custer a écrit : >> Apache 2.0 is incompatible with the GPL v2.0. Indeed, a major motivation >> of GPLv3.0 was to allow the integration of Apache and GNU code. GPLv3 is >> compatible with Apache 2.0. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the >> details so I don't know how this affects the LGPL v2.0. > > Takling about that, I would like to bring a question that I wanted to ask for > ages but didn't dared up to date. > > Before we switched to OSGEO, our licensing terms was saying that GeoTools is > licensed under "either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any > later > version.". In the move to OSGEO we dropped the "(at your option) any later > version" part. At that time I was neutral. Today I feed that it may have been > unfortunate. Would people agree to reinsert the "(at your option) any later > version" sentence in the copyright statement?
Well, on the bright side thanks to Adrian work we now have a good legal standing and we are in a position to change the license at will, as far as I know the PSC just have to ask OSGEO to do so (provided the license we choose to switch to is still open source). I personally would be ok with adding a "any later version", but I would feel more comfortable with just switching explicitly to v3 (provided v3 does not have other significant changes I'm not aware of, haven't really read it, just read articles talking about it). The rationale is, what if LGPL v4 contains changes that we don't agree with? Saying any later version is kind of accepting the unknown... Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
