Okay cool - thanks Gabriel.
So we got two answers:
- ESRI - a jar downloaded without a licensing restriction - we should
try and find someone to talk to I guess?
- Oracle - a problem, we need to either ask nice or pay $2k to be a partner
Marc I understand that you would like to use the sdoapi.jar a bit more
(and thus have less code in geotools) - a
move I support. We do need to ensure we can get the access thing sorted
out first - and Chris will write a letter
on our behalf.
The situation is complicated by the fact that GeoServer and GeoTools are
already listed on the oracle partner
website (and I have no idea how they got there).
Chris are you writing this for osgeo? Or just for GeoTools?
On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:02, Jody Garnett wrote:
Hi Marc - module maintainer for Oracle
Gabriel - module maintainer for ArcSDE
We have an interesting twist with the jars required for your modules to
build. The jars are not part of an open source project, and produced by
a commercial company.
Gabriel I am not familiar with how we acquired the arcsde jars. Can you
confirm for me that we are allowed to depend on these jars, and host
them in our maven repository for open source development.
The jars are freely downloadable from the following URL, which I added in the
arcsde plugin's project.xml dependencies:
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=19&MetaID=1065#install-cUNIX
I saw no license agreement nor you have to be registered to download it, so I
thought it would be ok. When I first introduced the geotools arcsde plugin
back in 2003 I asked Chris Holmes about this same fear, and since we didn't
found any access restriction I guessed it would be ok.
I'm far to be a licensing expert though, so be sure I'll have no problem in
producing a fake jar with the needed classes so the plugin could compile
without depending on the actual ESRI jars if needed.
Gabriel.
Marc - I understand that you are a new module maintainer for Oracle and
are not familiar with its history. If needed you may check with the
previous module maintainers to answer this question.
For Oracle we have reverse engineered the Oracle API, interfaces only,
allowing geotools to compile. If it is possible to secure the rights to
the original for build purposes it would be of great assistance. My
understanding is that if GeoTools, or OSGEO was an Oracle Development
Partner we would be allowed to do this, I will leave it to you to figure
out the details.
Jody
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