+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/
>

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