Re: [Semediawiki-user] Semantic Google Maps relaunched

[Asheesh L. <as...@cr...>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Matt Williamson wrote:

> By the way, I actually had some folks from MetaCarta (the 
> creators/sponsors of OpenLayers) contact me about developing SL into 
> something they can leverage/distribute, but they haven't gotten me the 
> firm requirements yet (guess I need to bug them again), but that could 
> be exciting. It might involve licensing problems, though, as they want 
> something BSD...which I think I could do, if I removed the remaining 
> SMW-derived code, but I'm not sure.

That sounds awesome.

It would be fine to license your work as BSD, so long as you don't include 
a copy of any SMW code.  It's even fine to even write proprietary 
extensions to MediaWiki, since they are separate works from MW/SMW.

-- Asheesh.

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