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What motivated the choice of AGPL license? OpenDroneMap has dependencies on GDAL, Proj4J, GeoPackage, SciPy, Python, Nginx, and Django, among other packages. T
by mch82 4y ago
What motivated the choice of AGPL license?
OpenDroneMap has dependencies on GDAL, Proj4J, GeoPackage, SciPy, Python, Nginx, and Django, among other packages. Those foundational libraries tend to have more permissive licenses (PSF, MIT, BSD 3-Clause, Apache 2.0 etc.).
- mooreds 4y agohttps://www.opendronemap.org/2020/12/ghost-busting-speed-improvements-and-switch-to-agpl-with-2-3-0/ https://www.opendronemap.org/2020/12/ghost-busting-speed-imp... references https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html Here's a forum post covering the same issue: https://community.opendronemap.org/t/licensing-queries/6545/2 https://community.opendronemap.org/t/licensing-queries/6545/... Disclosure: I'm not an opendronemap community member, so this is based on some googling only.
- mch82 4y agoThanks. Those are great links.
- pierotofy 4y agoOpenDroneMap co-founder here: to make sure modifications to the software continue to be released as open source to end users. Other licenses allow companies to just take the software, modify it to their needs and not release those changes back. ODM is very suited for use in cloud environments, so the AGPL works very well here.