id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
1812,"ILI Driver ""iom"" code is LGPL",warmerdam,pka,"Pirmin, 

The GDAL/OGR Provenance review for OSGeo incubation has highlighted that the ili/iom code is licensed under the LGPL, not the MIT/X license of GDAL/OGR as a whole.  This is according to the statement in the ili/iom/README.src.txt file. 

It is not compatible with the GDAL/OGR licensing scheme to include LGPL code within GDAL source distributions.  Some possible resolutions include:

 * Get clear permission from the authors of the code to relicense it under the MIT/X license.
 * Move the iom code out of GDAL/OGR and make it an external library that can be linked against to enable Interlis support. 
 * Move the whole interlis driver out into a distinct package that is built as a runtime loadable plugin somewhat similar to the GRASS plugin but not living in the GDAL tree.  This could likely live in the Spike area of the subversion server.
 * re-engineer the Interlis driver to not need the iom code (perhaps replicating it). 

It is my objective to resolve all pending provenance issues by GDAL 1.5.0 release which I hope to be within four weeks (first beta in a week and a half or so).  So I'd appreciate thoughts on approach fairly soon. 

",defect,closed,normal,1.6.0,License,unspecified,normal,fixed,ili,warmerdam