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

[Martin Reddy]

Okay - thanks for the clarification.
I hadn't come across this issue before.

Cheers,

Martin.


On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Matt.Wilkie wrote:
> 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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> Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS
> http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/
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