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This file attempts to include all licenses that apply within the PostGIS
-source tree, in particular any that are supposed to be exposed to the end user
-for credit requirements for instance.
+source tree, in particular any that are supposed to be exposed to the end
+user for credit requirements for instance.
PostGIS General
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In general PostGIS is licensed under GPL Version 2 terms except on files
-where expressly stated otherwise. Please refer to the COPYING file for licensing details.
+where expressly stated otherwise. Please refer to the COPYING file for
+licensing details.
-PostGIS has dependencies on other libraries which are not under GPL and that are commonly distributed with PostGIS core libraries.
-In general these are dynamically linked libraries.
-Libraries are as follows:
+PostGIS has dependencies on other libraries which are not under GPL and
+that are commonly distributed with PostGIS core libraries. In general
+these are dynamically linked libraries. Libraries are as follows:
Proj4 - http://proj.osgeo.org -- X/MIT License
GEOS - http://geos.osgeo.org -- LGPL License
LibXML - http://xmlsoft.org/ -- X/MIT License
GDAL - http://gdal.osgeo.org/ -- X/MIT Style License
--- Source files included with PostGIS not under GPL
--- The following loader/dumper files are derivative works or direct ports of ShapeLib which is under an X/MIT License
-loader/dbfopen,safileio.*, shapefil.h, shpopen.c
+Source files included with PostGIS not under GPL
+------------------------------------------------
+
+-- The following loader/dumper files are derivative works or direct ports
+of ShapeLib which is under an X/MIT License: loader/dbfopen,safileio.*,
+shapefil.h, shpopen.c
-- These are under AT&T public domain (someone should probably verify)
loader/getopt.*
-- Doc/xsl files
These are under a BSD Style license
-The documentation for is under a creative commons share-alike 3.0 license.
-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
+The documentation for PostGIS is under a creative commons share-alike
+3.0 license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Data used in documentation falls in one of the following categories
-- Many of the examples in the topology and tiger geocoder section utilize data from US Census Tiger data 2010
- http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.html
+- Many of the examples in the topology and tiger geocoder section utilize
+ data from US Census Tiger data 2010
+ http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.html
- data or snapshots generated by community
-- many images autogenerated by PostGIS documentation generator (which utilizes ImageMagick)
- as described http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevWikiDocNewFeature
+- many images autogenerated by PostGIS documentation generator (which
+ utilizes ImageMagick) as described
+ http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevWikiDocNewFeature
- PostGIS raster output functions such as the ST_AsPNG etc.
-- raster/vector data from MassGIS: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm
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+- raster/vector data from MassGIS: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm