+1 from me with my Legal Committee hat on. Cheers, Chris
On 5/19/16, 2:41 PM, "Martin Desruisseaux" <[email protected]> wrote: >We now have a first Release Candidate for Apache SIS which aims to implement >the LEGAL-183 resolution ("Is Apache software allowed to distribute the EPSG >database?") [1]. Before to submit that release candidate to a vote, I would >like to verify if it is > an acceptable implementation of LEGAL-183 resolution. In summary: > >* The EPSG database would not be included in any file distributed on >http://dist.apache.org/ <http://dist.apache.org/> [2]. >* The EPSG database would be distributed on Maven Central as >org.apache.sis.non-free:sis-epsg:0.7 artifact [3]. > >* The META-INF/LICENSE file in the Maven artifact is a copy of EPSG terms of >use instead of Apache 2 license. > >* Users who want the EPSG dataset need to either: > >* declare themself a dependency to the org.apache.sis.non-free:sis-epsg:0.7 >artifact. > >* or let the command-line tools install the dataset itself, in which case it >will prompt the user for agreement. > > > > >More details are provided in the following instructions for Apache SIS users: > >http://sis.staging.apache.org/epsg.html > > > >Would it be okay? > Thanks, > > Martin > > >[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-183 >[2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/sis/0.7/RC1/ >[3] >https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachesis-1017/org/apache/sis/non-free/sis-epsg/0.7/ >
