[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good timing Hans, we are in the middle of an IP review as part of our
involvement with the OSGEO Foundation, it seems you have the jump on
us. The project is intentended to be LGPL, commercial friendly and so
on. I will go fix the SF page now, we do not really use their facilities
other then for code distribution.
Any code that does not meet this will be rewritten.
Hello,
In the documentation in the GeoTools wiki the license for GeoTools is
described as LGPL (
_http://www.geotools.org/display/GEOT/1.4+Source+License_ ).
However, on the sourceforge project page the licenses GPL, LGPL, and
MIT are listed ( _http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/_ ).
In the sources (for version 2.1.0), there seems to be both LGPL and
GPL licensed code (based on license comments in files), as well as one
source file covered by the Sun license (NumberParser.java, copied from
an old version of the JDK perhaps?). The Sun license comment reads:
* Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
Could the Wiki page mentioning only LGPL be updated to reflect the
licenses mentioned on the sourceforge page? (Or alternatively the
code updated to only contain LGPL licensed code, althought that is
probably a more long term effort). Also, the Sun licensed file
should probably be replaced or at least investigated, as it seems to
be incompatible with GPL and LGPL.
We wanted to use the main-2.1.0.jar and shapefile-2.1.0.jar with the
LGPL license. Fortunately, these two Jars did only contain one unit
test file and one html file that were GPL licensed, and the Sun
licensed NumberParser.java (used for parsing some doubles from
strings). We removed the test, html file, and NumberParser.java. We
had to replace the places where NumberParser.java was used (in
DbaseFileReader.java) with (slower) calls to standard JDK library methods.
Darn shapefile was just checked by Richard, I will ask him to look into
this and get back to you. Probably would not hurt to open a issue on
this stuff..
According to LGPL we make our changes to the code available in the
attached file (it was the only changed source file).
Thanks muchly,
Jody
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