[OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Ravi Kumar
How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a great extent true only in countries like USA where software can be copy righted. In many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2013 23:26:19 Ravi Kumar escribió: How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. STFW. http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html «The Open Source Geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining a GIO position (or attmepting to . . .)

2013-10-17 Thread Duarte Carreira
I find that an argument that seats well with management is open source scales for free, while proprietary is itself a financial obstacle when you need to grow your system, be it to support more load server-side, add more client-side machines, or add new applications to your portfolio (usually a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.10.2013 08:26, Ravi Kumar wrote: How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining a GIO position (or attmepting to . . .)

2013-10-17 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Duarte, Thanks for your thoughts. They are very well organized and clear (and clear up some of my own thoughts on the topic) I think they will end up in the after the fact discussion more than the up front discussion related to setting up a position/title. I may be off base here though, so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread P Kishor
On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: ​ ​ How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right ​ ​ Pl give a link where the rationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a