Re: EPSG

I haven't formed an opinion on this thread yet, but I think it is worthy 
of highlighting to the incubation committee, and is possibly a reason to 
delay PROJ graduation.

On 19/10/19 4:39 am, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
>
> 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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