GeOxygene Licenses

Source License

GeOxygene is distributed under the terms of the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) license and under the terms of the CeCILL-C license. Licenses are described below.

A few modules contain code under a different license :

  • geoxygene-sig3d is under the terms of the CeCILL-B
  • geoxygene-ojplugin is under the terms of the GPL

GNU Lesser General Public License

The source code of the GeOxygene library written before 2011 is distributed under the LGPL license:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; version 2.1 of the License.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

The text of the license itself is included with the library as a “LICENSE” file. This license can be downloaded from the Free Software Foundation :

CeCILL-C

The source code of the GeOxygene library written after 2011 is distributed under the CeCILL-C license:

The purpose of this Free Software license agreement is to grant users the right
to modify and re-use the software governed by this license.

The exercising of this right is conditional upon the obligation to make available
to the community the modifications made to the source code of the software so as
to contribute to its evolution.

The text of the license itself is included with the library as a “LICENSE” file. This license can be downloaded from the “Licence française de logiciel libre” website :