[OSM-dev] Any OpenStreetMap viewer for Android?

[Nick Black]

Hi guys,

I'll let Jaak from Nutiteq comment more, but it seems pretty clear to me:

http://www.nutiteq.com/faq.html#What_are_your_licensing_options

"Can I use the tools for free?

You can use MGMaps Lib SDK for free within the terms of GPL. It means
that you need to license your application also as GPL, i.e. publish
also your application source code. For commercial applications we
suggest commercial licenses."

You can use a GPL version of the SDK for free / gratis.  If you do not
want to license your end product GPL then you can license a non-GPL
version of the code from Nutiteq.  This is a pretty common form of
licensing, used by MySQL AB and Trolltech for Qt
(http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing).

I would certainly not say that Nutiteq "don't know what they are
talking about" and I wouldn't "stay away from them".  They are a for
profit company who are making their libraries available for open
source developers to build on.  That definitely puts them in my good
books :-)

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Nick




On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:03:21PM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote:
> > Here we are; trapped in the confusion I got before:
> > * http://www.nutiteq.com/e-shop.html says "MGMaps Lib SDK is open
> > source toolkit"
> > * Inside the zip file of the lib there's a LICENSE file which says GPL.
> > * http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/j2me-lib-android at
> > least implicitly supports this
> >
> > I interpret this as a "dual license".
>
> I interpret this as "they don't know what they are talking about, so keep away"
> :-)
>
> Jochen
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