About OSGeo
OSGeo is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing open geospatial solutions worldwide. By fostering community-driven development and providing resources, OSGeo supports projects that enable freedom, flexibility, and collaboration in geospatial technology. The foundation promotes interoperability, education, and inclusivity, ensuring open source tools remain accessible and impactful for all.
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OSGeo is an independent not-for-profit legal entity established to support the needs of the open source geospatial community. It serves as an organizing body, a public technology commons, a development community manager, and event sponsor.
Becoming a member is as easy as joining the site and contributing to the foundation goals. You can participate in committees, contribute code, or help with documentation and user support.
No, OSGeo is not against proprietary software. It respects the important role that proprietary software plays in the industry and believes that open source software can coexist with and even benefit proprietary software vendors.
OSGeo includes projects such as GDAL/OGR, GeoTools, GRASS GIS, Mapbender, MapBuilder, MapGuide Open Source, MapServer, and OSSIM. For an official list, visit the 'OSGeo Projects' page.
Projects need to go through the Incubation process to join the foundation. Details on how to apply and how the process works are available on the Incubator web page.
OSGeo only accepts projects that use OSI-certified licenses for their software, such as MIT/X, BSD, GPL, and LGPL. It encourages library projects to use the LGPL or a more permissive license but does not require it.
You can contribute by joining the main foundation discuss list, participating in the Volunteers Needed wiki, contributing code, or helping with documentation, testing, user support, and advocacy.
No, Autodesk has provided support to help establish the foundation, but it is not controlled by Autodesk. Only two charter members, including one board member, are from Autodesk.
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