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Open Source License

deegree is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Generally speaking this means that the software users have essential freedoms such as: Run the software for any purpose, find out how it works, make changes, redistribute copies (of modified versions). Practically, with these freedoms, you do not have to pay a license fee, you can create as many installations as you need, and you're not bound to one single vendor. Instead you can contact a service provider of your choice to make necessary configurations or code adjustments. Or you may even step up and do this yourself.

More information about free software can be found at the free software foundation. A good starting point is http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html.

A copy of the deegree license text is available on the project wiki: [WIKI page to be added]

Technology

deegree is a standards-based Java framework for spatial data infrastructures.

Short history

The deegree project was born in summer 2002 as a consistent follow-up of a research & development project at the Geography Department of the University of Bonn in Germany. Based on one of the first implementations of the early Simple Features model of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) it started under the label "Jago" and was renamed to be "deegree" in 2002.

Please note that current development is focussed on version 3 while version 2 is still maintained.

Project Organisation

deegree is coordinated by a Project Steering Committee (PSC) and technically governed by a Technical Management Committee (TMC). Both institutions work closely together while each one has its designated responsibilities. Find out more on the deegree wiki at http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/StructuresAndProcedures.

In 2010 deegree was officially accepted to be an OSGeo project after a two-years incubation process which was a major step towards more transparency and quality, both in structures, procedures and the software itself. Being an OSGeo project deegree has a strong commitment to enhance its overall accessibility and make the software as easy to use as possible.

Contact

If you have questions and comments about deegree, please use one of the mailing lists for users and developers [LINK to "Community" or "Support"]. In other cases you may want to use one of the following contact points:

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