[ckan-dev] License ckanext-spatial

[David Read]

Why is it not fit for reuse? It is the rather open OGL licence and
compatible with CC-BY. (It is not copyleft.)

However I think there could be another argument that all CKAN
Extensions are 'part of' or 'derivatives of' CKAN, so must be AGPL. In
addition OKF might argue that the portions they wrote for UK Gov
should not be licensable under OGL - the terms of the contract that
this work was produced are not clear. If OKF was keen to change it to
AGPL then I expect I could get UK Gov agreement, and that might avoid
unnecessary doubt.

David

On 30 April 2013 14:42, Florian Marienfeld
<florian.marienfeld at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> can any one tell me, what is the license of
> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial
>
> There is a license paragraph [1], but it is not particularly fit for
> reuse :-)
>
> Especially, is there a copyleft? That would be very comfortable, because
> otherwise I would have to justify why we want to open source our
> modification:
>
> https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/ckanext-spatial/tree/ogpd
>
> Thanks in advance, best,
>
> FLO
>
>
> ---
> [1] Licence
>
> This code falls under different copyrights, depending on when it was
> contributed and by whom:: * (c) Copyright 2011-2012 Open Knowledge
> Foundation * Crown Copyright * XML/XSD files: copyright of their
> respective owners, held in the files themselves
>
> All of this code is licensed for reuse under the Open Government Licence
> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/
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