Thanks for pointing this out. On trunk, the NumberFormat class was moved
to the referencing module. The only code in the codebase that actually
used it was DbaseFileReader.java.
I have made the changes you provided to it.
I have also deleted test/org/geotools/resources/NumberParserTest.java
and src/org/geotools/resources/NumberParser.java.
Hopefully this does not screw anything else up. Andrea - Jody mentioned
that you may have said that it was used for performance reasons?
Cheers,
Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
According to LGPL we make our changes to the code available in the
attached file (it was the only changed source file).
<<DbaseFileReader.java>>
Best regards,
-- Hans Häggström
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