Re: [JPP-Devel] Opportunities --- thinking about international collaboration in GIS Teaching and OpenJUMP Development

2008-05-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hi, the last 30mins I had a look on the EU Alfa program: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/latin-america/regional-cooperation/alfa/index_en.htm A short overview is given by these slides: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/latin-america/regional-cooperation/alfa/documents/new-programme-document

Re: [JPP-Devel] question about acceptable licenses for 3rd party libraries

2008-05-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, GPL and LGP fit and any other license that is not proprietary (e.g. Apache, BSD). Look for instance here: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ and the heading: GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses there is also something on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL#Compatibility_and_m

Re: [JPP-Devel] question about acceptable licenses for 3rd party libraries

2008-05-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
mhm.. I may add this article that I wrote: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/publications/degen/sstein_foss_desktop_gis_overview.pdf the 2nd section gives a very short introduction to licensing and terms. (I add this, since you refered to opensource.org .. as I prefer FSF.org ;) stefan Christopher wrote

Re: [JPP-Devel] question about acceptable licenses for 3rd party libraries

2008-05-01 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
That is a darn good question. I'm not a legal expert, but I believe that we can use just a library under just about any license wihtin JUMP. I don't think the "viral" properties of the GPL license come into play until something else tries to incorporate code from OpenJUMP. I invite other programme

[JPP-Devel] question about acceptable licenses for 3rd party libraries

2008-05-01 Thread Christopher
What are the acceptable licenses for libraries to be used in the OpenJUMP project? I assume GPL and LGPL are good since the entire project is GPL, but what about other OSI approved ones like the apache license? http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical --Christopher __