GDAL/OGR

The a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2012"2012 OSGeo Code Sprint/a is approaching fast: February 5-9, 2012 at a href="http://www.islandwood.org/"IslandWood/a (near Seattle).

A question that I hear often is whether open source software can be used in a proprietary (closed source) application.

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I just found out that ESRI has published an official position on open source software on its website at http://esri.com/opensource that sounds quite encouraging. (Thanks to Chaipat Nengcomma's blog post that I could not read but that hinted me to this.)

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Je viens de découvrir sur le site Web d'ESRI à http://esri.com/opensource une position officielle au sujet des produits open source qui est plutôt encourageante. (Merci au blogue de Chaipat Nengcomma que je n'ai pas pu lire mais qui m'a mis la puce à l'oreille.)

As the great reporter that he is, Paul wrote up great summaries of Day 0 and Day 1 of the New York Code Sprint.

In addition to the MapServer 6.0 release plan discussions (brainstorming) that he already mentioned, I have been involved in several discussions here and there about MapServer and GDAL/OGR.

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