On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Greg Troxel wrote:
I also was unclear on the optional driver situation. Certainly if
drivers can link with proprietary libraries, there is absolutely no
reason to object to a driver because it links so an AGPL3 library.
I believe that drivers with non-MIT licenses shouldn't
Having ranted earlier about the use of AGPL3 to sell proprietary
licenses, I'd like to say that I'm glad to hear the new library is
"righteous AGPL3" instead of "subversive AGPL3".
I also was unclear on the optional driver situation. Certainly if
drivers can link with proprietary libraries, ther
Hi
> I motion to adopt RFC79: Listing of Service Providers on GDAL website:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3473
>
> Starting with my +1
I declare this motion passed with +1 from PSC members MateuszL, KurtS, JukkaR,
DanielM and myself.
Best regards,
Even
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Hi Jukka,
Thanks, makes a lot of sense. My comments about removing proprietary drivers
weren't meant as a provocation, I'm sorry you received it that way. Just a
thought experiment
to explore possible inconsistency of keeping proprietary drivers while
pushing back
on GPL drivers. But your explana
Hi,
In my opinion it is GDAL's mandate to favor projects that use the same type
of license than GDAL itself. Both proprietary and more copy-left licenses
makes it a bit harder to handle the whole system. Individual developers may
have their own opinions about what licensing model is the best when
Hi Brad,
Definitely makes for an interesting discussion.
A few questions to ponder:
Is it GDAL's mandate to encourage projects with permissive licenses and to,
shall we say,
discourage those with copy-left licenses ? This is how Google and Apple
operate,
but they are for-profit corporations who
Hi,
I have two GeoJSON files. One is having features A and B, another one is
having Features B and C. In these two files Feature B is common ( same
attributes and same geometry).
Now I want to merge these two GeoJSON files into either a single GoeJSON
file or a GPKG file. But the Output file shou