Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of codesprint/201106-bolsena


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Timestamp:
06/19/11 01:49:07 (14 years ago)
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simonp
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    4040Motivation:
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    42  * recently at least one commercial operation has begun distributing a modified version of GeoNetwork most likely without obeying the GPL licence conditions that the source code be distributed with it
     42 * recently at least one commercial operation has begun distributing a modified version of GeoNetwork - are they obeying the GPL licence conditions that the source code be distributed with their modified version of GeoNetwork?
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    4444GPL Licence problems:
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    46 Others are cloning the GeoNetwork code, making improvements and are not willing to return their improvements to the community in the form of source code. It's unfortunate that neither GPLv2 or GPLv3 Affero can guarantee that these modifications are returned to the community. GNU Affero is stricter as it has a few more conditions on how source code has to be made available but it still allows the person/organisation making the modifications to make them available to the public for a charge (ie. $$).
     46Others are cloning the GeoNetwork code, making improvements and have not (and seem to be not willing to) make their improvements available to the community in the form of source code. It's unfortunate that neither GPLv2 or GPLv3 Affero can guarantee that these modifications are returned to the community. GNU Affero is stricter as it has a few more conditions on how source code has to be made available but it still allows the person/organisation making the modifications to make them available to the public for a charge (ie. $$).
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    4848Any other comments? (I'm definitely not an expert on any of this and I can see quite a few people probably thinking this is all too hard :-) - if so then perhaps we should abandon the GNU GPL licence (requires agreement from contributors) and use some other licence eg. apache?).