You’re not to blame. I think that the license of Proj4j is deceptive, because 
use requires explicit user consent.

I’m sure the developers of Proj4j have the best of intentions. They are caught 
between a rock and a hard place: they want to provide rich functionality as 
open source, but the only data set that describes the exact shape of the 
not-quite-spherical earth was constructed at great cost by petro companies and 
is now controlled by those companies’ lawyers. 

Julian

> On Nov 23, 2022, at 09:12, Bertil Chapuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for including this dependency in Calcite. I wasn’t aware of this issue 
> with EPSG until we discussed the draft release of Apache Baremaps.
> 
> I will make a PR to remove it and I will try to find a work around for future 
> releases.
> 
> Bertil
> 
>> On 23 Nov 2022, at 17:31, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Bertil has logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5399 
>> describing a licensing issue with the Proj4j library, which we added as a 
>> dependency in the last release. Though it describes itself as Apache 
>> licensed, it embeds a data set (EPSG) that requires the user to agree to its 
>> terms of use.
>> 
>> Julian
> 

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