Hi everyone, Regarding funding, I thought the barn raising that Howard mentioned from a few years ago was a good thing. My little company made a donation and I think we'd do it again were another "barn" proposed. Tools like GDAL & PROJ and related projects are worth supporting and periodic donations seem to be an easy way to pay our part.
Thanks, carl On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:58 PM Howard Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 2021, at 4:28 PM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 06:24, David Strip <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the path forward? One path Howard suggests is establishing a > foundation similar to that behind Qgis. Another alternative, probably far > more controversial, is a license change. > > > I'm pretty clueless regarding licenses -- but this is an interesting > thought. I wonder if any new drivers added to GDAL could be done with > a dual-licensing under both GPL + some other license which requires > ongoing sponsorship of the GDAL project? > > > License monkey business isn't viable in any way with GDAL. It would just > create confusion and erode trust, which we can't get back if broken. > > The big organizations running 100,000,000s of CPU hours extracting > information from imagery they're reading in COGs with GDAL need to be > donating substantial resources into an organization that provides > coordination. The last time I did a fund raise with gdalbarn.com I was > called out for naming some of these organizations and expressing my > disappointment they couldn't find a way to participate or simply ignored > the request. Maybe they will step forward this time around. > > Whether it is in a new foundation or an existing one like NumFocus, > substantial resources need to be dumped in a pot that are earmarked for > supporting work that generates value for the project. Chasing new feature > work to subsidize project maintenance activities is not sustainable in two > directions – burn out for the maintainer and creeping feature-itis for the > project. > > It's clear what's happened in the past is a combination of luck and > graciousness by both Frank and Even. > > Howard > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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