[postgis-devel] Why PostGIS libraries should not be GPL

[Mateusz Loskot]

Sakari A. Maaranen wrote:
> 2010/1/28 Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>:
>> strk wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:32:32PM +0200, Sakari A. Maaranen wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, and I guess my critique on GPL in that long rant is still generally
>>> worth reading, so that was not in vain.  ;-)
>> To rant on something, it's good to understand the matter.
>> Your questions suggest this condition is not fulfilled :-)
> 
> If you read my later reply, you should see that the misunderstanding
> was purely caused by me reading the wrong copyright notice.  I was
> reading the GPL notice of PostGIS in place of where I should have read
> the LGPL notice of the JDBC extension.  The matter and the text were
> understood quite wel.  It just happened to be the wrong text and a
> different matter.  :-)
> 
> So the questions were raised by that mistake.


OK, my mistake as well, regards.

Best regards,
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