Another busy week…and not much time for blogging, so I will just put this presentation online that I gave to a Global Change thinktank meeting I attended in Pretoria.
Also a few weeks back someone I met from INPE, Brasil mentioned Spring as a potential point of collaboration with QGIS. Tonight I finally got a chance to take a look at their site only to be dissapointed when looking at their license to find that it is free as in beer but not open source or Free in the ‘libre’ sense of the word 
Well, I’m brazilian and always thought that it would be better if Spring were Open Source, but this is a very old project and because they didn’t think about this possibility from the beginning they don’t want to change the license now. But you shouldn’t be totally disappointed since they have also developed more recently Terralib and Terraview which are completely Open Source and in my point of view will replace Spring. The only problem with their software development is that they definitely doesn’t know how to build community of users and developers around it.