[Freegis-list] OGC Web Map Server support in TerraVision

[Matt.Wilkie]

Hi Martin,

> > Two remarks for our readers on the freegis-list:
> >
> > 	The Apache license (v1.1) coming with tsmApi has a couple of
> > 	requirements which renders it incompatible with the GPL.
> 
> Is that an issue for this list? I thought that FreeGIS was 
> supportive of OSI approved licenses, of which Apache is one.

Bernhard will of course correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll try 
to clarify this a little.  

Bernhard didn't mean that the Apache license is not welcome to 
the FreeGIS community - the Apache License does comply with the 
Open Source Defintion and is Free Software as the term is understood
by the FreeGIS project. It is just that although Apache & GPL 
licensed code are both Free Software, they cannot be just lumped 
together into a single codebase. 

For more detail on this see:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
http://www.google.com/search?q=license+Apache+GPL

cheers,

-matt

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