Quick question - geotools is a runtime dependency? Are you shipping the source 
code? If not, you should be okay. 

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Venkatesh

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Puja Valiyil <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Talking with Aaron, it seems like there were two paths forward for
> refactoring in order to create a release.  To refresh everyone's memory,
> the issue was that the geo-indexing extensions to Rya pull in geotools,
> which prohibits us from releasing Rya under an Apache 2 license.  There may
> be some more particulars that I'm glossing over -- someone please chime in
> if they feel it is key to the discussion.
> The two paths forward we had were:
> 1.  Make all of the indexing project and its downstream dependencies
> optional and exclude them from a release
> -- The indexing project includes several "optional" extensions to Rya
> (advanced indexing strategies).  Prior to Rya becoming an apache project,
> these indexing extensions were optional and there was a separate profile
> for including them.  This option involves reverting back to that mindset.
> The main argument against this is that these indexing strategies/extensions
> are not in fact optional but are "core" to Rya and can't be excluded.
> 
> 2.  Refactor Rya to pull geoindexing into a separate project and exclude
> that project from the release.
> - We could refactor Rya to have geoindexing be its own project and add a
> profile to include that in the build.  This would invovle moving the class
> mvm.rya.indexing.GeoIndexer and packages mem.rya.indexing.accumulo.geo and
> mvm.rya.indexing.mongodb.geo to a separate project and then removing/moving
> references to geoindexing anywhere else.  Another option is to refactor the
> GeoIndexer interface to remove the geotools dependency.
> 
> I think #1 is a good immediate path for a release and that #2 is a good
> longer term path forward.  Since it's probably in our best interests as a
> community to get an apache release sooner rather than later, I'd rather us
> go with #1 since it would quicker.  I also think that most users of Rya
> would be ok with excluding the indexing project since it is not core
> functionality for Rya.  While #2 is a better long term plan, it involves
> some pretty extensive refactoring that would be difficult to do well in a
> timely manner.
> 
> Any thoughts?

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