Skip to content

License change to MIT #107

Open
Open

Description

@gktval

Question about the license in this project if we can change it to MIT? The current license is GNL-GPU which is rather restrictive for privatized companies. Since this project is a derivative of NetTopologySuite (which has much less restrictive license) and also since much of the projection code is derived from here: https://github.com/dotMorten/ProjNET/tree/main/src/ProjNET which has an MIT license--I feel it could be appropriate. Just thought I'd check before I submit a PR . If not, that is totally fine. Best regards.

Activity

  1. airbreather commented on Nov 16, 2022

    @airbreather
    Member

    The current license

    The current license is actually LGPL-2.1. To summarize what that license requires (this is not legal advice, nor should it be construed as modifying the license terms), the idea of LGPL is that you can use it with an application that's otherwise closed-source, you just have to provide the source code for any changes that you make to this library, specifically to anyone that you distribute it to.

  2. gktval commented on Nov 16, 2022

    @gktval
    Author

    That is good to know. I had always clumped GPL licenses together under the same objective. I will close this.

  3. FObermaier commented on Nov 17, 2022

    @FObermaier
    Member

    Since @dotMorten has changed ProjNets license to MIT we might follow?

  4. changed the title [-]License[/-] [+]License change to MIT[/+] on Nov 17, 2022
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions