Someone’s doing some sniffing … at Chris’ GISmo’s

Someone’s doing some sniffing …

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on April 11, 2007

. Tags: opensource, osgeo, Rants.

Sean is on the trail of something on MS-USERS ..

I couldn’t be bothered checking whether the software has the required MIT License enclosed, but lets hope they do! While nothing is hindering piggy-backing on OSS projects, it does certainly strike a choord as to doing the “right-thing”. DMSolutions commercial products certainly know that balance, lets hope they do the same.

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1 Sean Gillies
Apr 11th, 2007 at 11:37 pm

That was an ancient thread revived by Bart, and I did some blogging about it at:

http://zcologia.com/news/348/beneficial-proprietary-extensions-of-open-source-software/
http://zcologia.com/news/370/proprietary-feedback-part-2/
2 hobu
Apr 12th, 2007 at 12:09 am

I have confirmed they follow MapServer’s license and include the copyright notice.
3 Chris Tweedie
Apr 12th, 2007 at 7:10 am

Damn that Bart! Interesting posts Sean, cheers

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