Hi,
There was a very informative discussion on the MapServer-Dev
mailing-list about a MapServer vs AGG 2.5 licence compatibility. In
short I think it reads like the following. Note that AGG 2.4 has no
licence issue with MapServer since it was a BSD licence.
"For AGG, you'll be linking to a GPL library, which means you won't be
able to distribute BSD binaries anymore -- any binary linked against
AGG will have to go out under the GPL. Basically, if you only care
about Mapserver as an open source product, it's no problem, but if
you have any plans to distribute altered versions as closed source,
you cannot do it with the AGG dependency turned on."
and
If one distributes MapServer linked with a GPL AGG I *think* you are
required to provide MapServer under GPL terms. Because there is no
one contributor who has rights to alter MapServer licensing terms I
believe the distributor would be in violation of the AGG GPL terms.
See:
http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0710&L=mapserver-dev&D=1&T=0&O=D&X=4DEC7415D8C7791480&P=12919
Julien
PS: There was no discussion of re-licencing MapServer.
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Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com/
