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Revision as of 08:35, 23 May 2012
This page captures frequently asked questions related to the Location Working Group at Eclipse.
Contents
Q: What is the Location Working Group?
A: The group is a partnership between organizations (and individuals) that have a strong interest in Location technology.
Q: What is Location technology?
A: The group intends this definition to be broad, but 4 main areas are key at the time of writing this:
- Desktop, Mobile, and Web mapping
- Data capture, exchange, and processing
- Aggregating and relating data from diverse sources
- Model based design
Q: What does the group do exactly?
A: The group collaborates to:
- Produce re-usable software components,
- Foster exchanges between organizations such as industrial partners, academia, community, and consumers
- Ensure a sustainable commercial ecosystem exists around the software components
- Organize events, and jointly market and promote the group, and software
Q: What is the difference between Eclipse and OSGeo for example?
A: Eclipse has a governance model that is different in a few significant ways.
- The Eclipse Foundation provides five services to the Eclipse community. Full-time staff are associated with each of these areas. Volunteers at OSGeo provide IT infrastructure only.
- IT Infrastructure
- IP Management
- Development Process
- Ecosystem Development
- Conference planning
- Eclipse has a business model funded by membership dues that supports a professional staff of 15. OSGeo is volunteer driven exclusively.
- Eclipse is designed to encourage organizations producing products and services based on technology. When technology integral to their business, organizations invest strategically in the projects.
- The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is the default OSI approved license used at Eclipse. It is designed to be friendly to businesses while balancing the interests of the project. If you modify EPL code and re-distribute, you are compelled to give the changes back. If you build a product or service on top of EPL but do not modify it, your finished product can be licensed under a commercial license.
- Eclipse is incorporated as a not-for-profit. OSGeo has not yet successfully completed 501c3 incorporation and has been operating since 2006 under the assumption it will.