[OSM-dev] Help with implementation of multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagram for nominatim

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Wed Jul 21 14:50:00 BST 2010


>> beyond that I've been
>> looking at adapting the demo from cgal [2] but I'm struggling due to
>> my poor C++ skills
> I hate to poison dev with anything pertaining to licenses, but note that the
> CGAL code you refer to is licensed under "QPL" which is not compatible with
> GPL, so if you did incorporate their code/algorithm you'd have to release
> the affected bits, or the whole of Nominatim, under that QPL.

The license doesn't effect data generated by code - only the code itself.

As such my plan was to build it as a separate module (licensed QPL)
which should provide enough separation to avoid having to relicense
the rest of the code base.  I hope my reading is correct. However the
license does make me prefer an alternative solution I just haven't
found one.

The alternative is to add the text given here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Public_License

--
 Brian




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