EPSG (was: Code of conduct)
Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:39:38 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gis.proj-4.devel |
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| Organization | Geomatys |
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Note: my concern is only about EPSG dataset. Everything else in PROJ
look all clean for every parts I'm familiar with.
Le 18/10/2019 à 15:00, Howard Butler a écrit :
> Any activity from IOGP isn't going to change PROJ's project situation
> in regard to OSGeo incubation. While this is an issue to monitor, it
> isn't one to hold things up.
>
It depends if a graduation goal is to assert that PROJ is legally clean.
If yes, then I see this choice:
* PROJ can redistribute EPSG dataset under EPSG Terms of Use.
* If PROJ wants to relicense EPSG dataset (i.e. suppress EPSG Terms of
Use and put MIT license in place, which is my understanding of
ticket #2268 [1]), then we need IOGP explicit authorization. Most
OpenSource licenses do not allow relicensing neither (except by the
author); even the MIT license does not allow that (note: MIT allows
sub-licensing, but this is different than re-licensing).
If resolving legal issues is not a graduation goal, then indeed my
remark is not relevant to the graduation process.
Martin
[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2268
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