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PostGIS Licensing
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This file attempts to include all licenses that apply within the PostGIS
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source tree, in particular any that are supposed to be exposed to the end user
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for credit requirements for instance.
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PostGIS General
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In general PostGIS is licensed under GPL Version 2 terms except on files
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where expressly stated otherwise. Please refer to the COPYING file for licensing details.
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2011-04-28 17:57:42 +00:00
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PostGIS has dependencies on other libraries which are not under GPL and that are commonly distributed with PostGIS core libraries.
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In general these are dynamically linked libraries.
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Libraries are as follows:
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Proj4 - http://proj.osgeo.org -- X/MIT License
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GEOS - http://geos.osgeo.org -- LGPL License
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LibXML - http://xmlsoft.org/ -- X/MIT License
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GDAL - http://gdal.osgeo.org/ -- X/MIT Style License
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-- Source files included with PostGIS not under GPL
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-- The following loader/dumper files are derivative works or direct ports of ShapeLib which is under an X/MIT License
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loader/dbfopen,safileio.*, shapefil.h, shpopen.c
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-- These are under AT&T public domain (someone should probably verify)
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loader/getopt.*
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-- Doc/xsl files
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These are under a BSD Style license
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