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.
Hey,
just a minor one but it comes up and up and up and we will need to get
it out and out and out.
It should not read "produced by a commercial company" but "produced
under a proprietary license".
Many commercial companies produce perfectly Open and Free software.
One of the interests of the OSGeo is to make .org more attractive to
.com and to do this professionally it requires us to adhere to this fine
distinction.
Arnulf
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.
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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