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Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by mousebirdc »

chippy wrote: post #138
mousebirdc wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh come on Tom. Making a great, free toolkit utterly decimated the competition. Just completely destroyed any funding for a competitor. And I should know. I believe that you believe this is well intentioned, but it had a very negative impact on open source geospatial software development. Again, I SHOULD KNOW. Mapbox is doing what is good for Mapbox. It's a company. But let's not pretend this change is good for anyon…

If by open sourcing initially it hurt their competition, surely by going proprietary now it should help their competition (and FOSS geo stuff generally)?

For those competitors who still exist, maybe a little. But once a solution is entrenched and it isn't tooooo onerous, developers won't switch away.

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by klokan »

lukeqsee wrote: post #37
gorbypark wrote: post #19

Well, that sucks. I've been a happy Mapbox GL JS user for years, hosting my own tiles and not using their service at all. I even had a few (very small) pull requests accepted into the project. Hopefully the OSS community can maintain a fork of the 1.x codebase. -edit- The FAQ says developers can still use self hosted tiles, but also says that usage is now billed per map load, and "a map load occurs whenever a Map obj…

> To me that sound like while I can still use my own map tiles, it would still costs the same as if I used Mapbox hosted tiles. That's my reading of it, as well. Even though it's somewhat expected on the data collection side, it's decidedly unexpected that they not only require ToS acceptance, but also licensing fees for what used to be entirely free, OSS software. > Hopefully the OSS community can maintain a fork of…

The https://github.com/openmaptiles/gl-js proposed as the primary shared repo for an open-source fork of the Mapbox GL JS 1.x codebase.

Let's set autobuild of documentation, packages and configure CI on pull requests. Pull requests, forks & contributions welcome - as on other parts of the https://openmaptiles.org/ project providing free and open-source vector tiles of entire world for self-hosting.

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by curran_ »

lukeqsee wrote: post #34
etimberg wrote: post #12

I guess we should expect to see a fork of the v1 codebase?

Founder, Stadia Maps here. We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it. If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).

Where's the active OSS fork? Surely one will shake out of all this.

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by [deleted] »

lukeqsee wrote: post #34
etimberg wrote: post #12

I guess we should expect to see a fork of the v1 codebase?

Founder, Stadia Maps here. We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it. If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).

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Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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lukeqsee wrote: post #34
etimberg wrote: post #12

I guess we should expect to see a fork of the v1 codebase?

Founder, Stadia Maps here. We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it. If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).

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Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by ThomasG77 »

zylepe wrote: post #39
lukeqsee wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Founder, Stadia Maps here. We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it. If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).

Glad to see this. I’m a long time mapbox gl js user for https://onthegomap.com which costs $300-400 per month for running my own graphhopper routing servers and Stadia Maps tile hosting. It would cost over $3000 per month to upgrade to 2.0 and I have no need for 3D. I also use mapbox gl js for visualizing large datasets locally (precomoute vector tiles from non-geographic datasets), which doesn’t seems like it needs…

Switch to OpenLayers e.g https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/index.html?q=mapbo... (the example can use Mapbox but any vector tiles styles are fine). It can consume Mapbox GL JS styles if using ol-mapbox-style project https://www.npmjs.com/package/ol-mapbox-style#olms. A bit slower but except this, most of the things are supported. PS: fine if you don't use 3D

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by lukeqsee »

Animats wrote: post #153

Forked from version v1.13.0, the last released tag with the BSD license. Sigh. I use this for something that doesn't use their map tiles at all. Hundreds of new forks on Github in the last few hours. Maybe there will be a semi-official community version.

It’s in the works! Lots and lots of community interest. Working out the details of governance, code hosting, etc., so that one commercial entity isn’t the sole controller of what comes next. Email me (in bio) if you want looped-in.

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by shirakawasuna »

plantain wrote: post #126

This is going to fracture the fledgling community building on mapbox-gl-js - I expect we'll see a divergent BSD version as a result. I regret building out on mapbox-gl-js rather than leaflet...

Tangram is pretty nice if you end up not finding / wanting one of the forks of mapbox-gl-js

Re: Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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Post by Animats »

lukeqsee wrote: post #158
Animats wrote: post #153

Forked from version v1.13.0, the last released tag with the BSD license. Sigh. I use this for something that doesn't use their map tiles at all. Hundreds of new forks on Github in the last few hours. Maybe there will be a semi-official community version.

It’s in the works! Lots and lots of community interest. Working out the details of governance, code hosting, etc., so that one commercial entity isn’t the sole controller of what comes next. Email me (in bio) if you want looped-in.

Sent msg. I figured that would happen. I have one minor site that uses it, but others have much more significant uses.
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