Well, here is my confirmation: As an authorized representative of Walkinfo Technology Co., Ltd., I understand that the submitted code to the GDAL project will be contributed under the MIT/X license.
Thanks, Xian Even Rouault wrote > Le vendredi 19 juillet 2013 03:31:12, Xian Chen a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to submit a new driver for accessing Walk files, a >> geospatial >> data format developed by Walkinfo Tech. mainly for land surveying, >> evaluation, planning, checking and data analysis in China. >> >> Walkinfo Tech. is a China-based company founded since 1999, origignally >> focused on land surveying software research and development. Currently we >> have our own geographic information platform WalkGIS, as well as scores >> of >> GIS desktop, mobile products based on it, including WalkISurvey, >> WalkISurface, WalkCheck, WalkFu and so on. The company is also the >> largest >> strategic partner with Esri ArcGIS in China. >> >> The WalkGIS applications use GDAL/OGR as part of its base libaries. The >> purpose of developing the Walk driver on GDAL/OGR is to allow other GIS >> products such as ArcGIS to access our data more easily and conveniently. >> >> The driver I am working on is already able to get the information such as >> layers, features, geometries, and spatial references from Walk files. Can >> I >> get the permission to submit it to GDAL project and share it with other >> GDAL developers? > > Hi Xian, > > First, you should check with your employer that you can legally contribute > code to the GDAL/OGR project and submit it under the GDAL MIT/X licence. > Check > the "Legal" section of http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters . > If > this is the case, send an email to this mailing list where you will > confirm it. > > I also suggest that you read the developer guidelines at > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc8_devguide and check that your code > conforms to (most of) them. > > For OGR driver, I would also recommend that you test the driver with the > "test_ogrsf" utility (not compiled by default, but in a custom build, you > can > "cd apps", and then "make test_ogrsf" / "nmake /f makefile.vc > test_ogrsf.exe") > on sample files in your data format. This will run a few consistency test > to > check assumptions that an OGR driver should met. > > Then, you can attach an archive with the code to a Trac ticket ( > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/newticket ), so that it can be reviewed. > > Best regards, > > Even > > -- > Geospatial professional services > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-A-new-ogr-driver-tp5067479p5068082.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
