Hi all, First of all I would like to thank Petr for his work on Maptiler. He has actually spent a lot of unpaid time to develop a tool which is useful for many users. Earning a living from open-source is hard - as most people who have tried will be able to tell you.
Second I would like to point out that a project that has many users and little contributors is not necessarily unsuccessful. If your tool is working well, it may not scratch a developers itch[1]. Anyway, it seems that by retiring from OsGeo live you did hit many developers itch, so it seems this may actually be a rebirth of the project. I think that the request of Petr is fair: the code remains free (which it should, because there can be many derived works), but he just requests not to use the name and logo. This leaves room for other developers to jump in and create a new version. Yesterday on IRC, I proposed the name "IceTiler" as an alternative, based on the rebranding done by debian for many mozilla projects [2]. Other suggestions are welcome :-) Taking all into account I'm +1 on removing this project from OsGeo live in the current form, but I think we could have "IceTiler" in a next release if there is sufficient interest. Kind Regards, Johan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
