On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Tim Schaub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey- > > We've had discussions previously about adopting a license that has > more widespread use than our modified BSD license. The motivation for > making a change is increase the likelihood that others can use > OpenLayers without having to direct specific licensing questions to a > very small pool of people (perhaps a pool of one). > > The 2-clause BSD, referred to as "Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD > License" looks good to me > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause). > > This license differs from our current license > (http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt) in a number > of ways: > > 1) The 2-clause license omits the non-endorsement clause. Our current > license says that nobody can use the OpenLayers name to endorse > products that use OpenLayers without specific written permission. To > my knowledge, we have given specific written permission once. There > are enough other uses of the OpenLayers name in promoting software > that uses OpenLayers that I think we are not going to enforce this > non-endorsement clause. > > 2) The 2-clause license doesn't contain any language about patent > rights. Our current language about patent rights is not included in > other common forms of the BSD (OpenLayers and FeatureServer are the > two uses I could quickly find). Removing this specific language would > align our license with licenses used by many other projects - reducing > the chance of licensing questions that are specific to our project. > > I'm open to hearing proposals to use another license. > > I'm +1 on changing to the 2-clause BSD.
Tim, I'm just concerned about this regarding the 2-clause BSD: "The Free Software Foundation, which refers to the license as the FreeBSD License, states that it is compatible with the GNU GPL." (extracted from the wikipedia page) -- Eric Lemoine Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 Mail : [email protected] http://www.camptocamp.com _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
