Consolidation of LICENSE.txt and src/release/LICENSE.txt here (should
affect all core artifacts: war, system independant binary, and Windows/OS X
installers): https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/2085
All the extensions use a different license file, which can be fixed
separately, given that there seems to be additional issues there.
Torben
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Torben Barsballe <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Update to the above - it looks like only a subset of the geotools-based
> extensions have the GeoTools2 license.
>
> Separate from this, I noticed that many extensions do not include any sort
> of license in their packaging:
>
> cas (security)
> charts
> control-flow
> css
> csw
> feature-pregeneralized
> grib
> imagemap
> imagemosaic-jdbc
> importer-bdb
> importer
> inspire
> libjpeg-turbo
> monitor-hibernate
> monitor
> netcdf-out
> netcdf
> printing
> querylayer
> sqlserver
> teradata
> vectortile
> wcs2_0-eo
> wps-cluster-hazelcast
> wps
> xslt
> ysld
>
>
> Should these have licenses added, and if so, which ones
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Torben Barsballe <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Looking into it, it is a bit more complicated than initially anticipated.
>>
>> I did discover we have a third LICENSE.txt that is included in all
>> extension bundles (e.g. http://sourceforge.net/project
>> s/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.10.1/extensions/geoserver-2.10
>> .1-gdal-plugin.zip ) and hasn't been updated in a few years. The
>> contents are:
>>
>> Geotools2 - OpenSource mapping toolkit
>>> http://geotools.org
>>> (C) 2002, Geotools Project Managment Committee (PMC)
>>> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>> modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>> License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
>>> version 2.1 of the License.
>>> This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
>>> Lesser General Public License for more details.
>>
>>
>> This seems like it should be updated? I think we can modify it to link to
>> one of the other LICENSE.txt files instead, so we have at most 2, rather
>> than 3 or 4 versions of the file.
>>
>> Torben
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you can figure it out, go for it. May also be able to configure the
>>> assembly to reference the file a couple of levels up.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 31 January 2017 at 10:34, Torben Barsballe <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When merging https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/2023 , I
>>>> noticed that we have (at least) two identical LICENSE.txt files in the
>>>> codebase, one at LICENSE.txt and one at src/release/LICENSE.txt.
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to add a build step to copy the top-level LICENSE
>>>> file to release during packaging in order to avoid duplication?
>>>>
>>>> Torben
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