Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools license information incorrect in the Wiki

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:59:07 -0700 

Looks like it has already been removed on trunk.
It is safe for you to ignore it. As Chris Holmes stated, that GPL license should not be there. 


The only remaining issue I can see is TestFilterHandler.java in 
module/main has a VFNY GPL copyright on it:



/* Copyright (c) 2002 Vision for New York - www.vfny.org.  All rights 
reserved.

 * This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, availible at the root
 * application directory.
 */


Does anyone know if this can be safely removed as well? The file has Rob 
Hranac's name on it.


Cheers

Richard

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

This is what I found in the (version 2.1.0) sources, at the beginning of
MySQLDataStoreFactory.java:

/* Copyright (c) 2001, 2003 TOPP - www.openplans.org.  All rights
reserved.
 * This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, availible at the
root
 * application directory.
 */
/*
 *    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.
 *
 */

So, there are two conflicting licenses in it.


  Pertti 




-----Original Message-----

From: ext Richard Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 23 April 2006 23:34

To: Tapola Pertti (Nokia-NET/Espoo)

Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Haggstrom Hans 
(Nokia-NET/Espoo); geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools license information 
incorrect in the Wiki



Thanks Pertti. I have updated all of the modules to indicate 
that there is an issue. I will bring it up during tomorrow's 
GeoTools meeting as well.


Note that I could not find anything wrong in MySQLDataStoreFactory.java

Updated the pages at:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Indexed-Shapefile
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Main
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Tiger
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Validation

Cheers,

Richard

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Here is a list of GPL-licensed files that we found (by 


searching for "


GPL" in the files):




ext\indexed-shapefile\src\org\geotools\data\shapefile\indexed\IndexedS


ha
pefileDataStoreFactory.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\attributes\EqualityValidati


on
.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\attributes\NullZeroValidati


on
.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\attributes\RangeValidation.


ja
va



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\attributes\UniqueFIDValidat


io
n.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\attributes\UniquityValidati


on
.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\DefaultFeatureValidation.ja


va 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\DefaultIntegrityValidation.


ja
va
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\dto\PlugInDTO.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\dto\TestDTO.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\dto\TestSuiteDTO.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\FeatureValidation.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\IntegrityValidation.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\PlugIn.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\ContainsIntegrity.ja


va 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\ContainsIntegrityBea


nI
nfo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\CrossesIntegrity.jav


a 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\CrossesIntegrityBean


In
fo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\DisjointIntegrity.ja


va 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\DisjointIntegrityBea


nI
nfo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\IntersectsIntegrity.


ja
va



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\IntersectsIntegrityB


ea
nInfo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\OverlapsIntegrity.ja


va 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\OverlapsIntegrityBea


nI
nfo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\RelateIntegrity.java

ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\RelateIntegrityBeanI


nf
o.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\RelationIntegrity.ja


va 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\RelationIntegrityBea


nI
nfo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\SpatialTestCase.java

ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\TouchesIntegrity.jav


a 



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\TouchesIntegrityBean


In
fo.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\WithinIntegrity.java

ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\relate\WithinIntegrityBeanI


nf
o.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\spatial\IsValidGeometryVali


da
tion.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\spatial\LineCoveredByPolygo


nV
alidation.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\spatial\LineNoSelfOverlappi


ng
Validation.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\spatial\LinesNotIntersectVa


li
dation.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\Validation.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\ValidationBeanInfo.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\ValidationResults.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\Validator.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\xml\ArgHelper.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\xml\ReaderUtils.java



ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\xml\ValidationException.jav


a ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\xml\WriterUtils.java
ext\validation\src\org\geotools\validation\xml\XMLReader.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\attributes\NullZeroValidat


io
nTest.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\attributes\RangeFeatureVal


id
ationTest.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\FeatureValidationTest.java

ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\IntegrityValidationTest.ja


va 



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\relate\OverlapsIntegrityTe


st
.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\RoadNetworkValidationResul


ts
.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\RoadValidationResults.java

ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\UniqueFIDIntegrityValidati


on
.java



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\ValidationPlugInTester.jav


a 



ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\ValidationProcessorTest.ja


va ext\validation\test\org\geotools\validation\xml\XMLReaderTest.java
module\main\test\org\geotools\filter\TestFilterHandler.java
plugin\mysql\src\org\geotools\data\mysql\MySQLDataStoreFactory.java


Could not see anything wrong with this file.



plugin\tiger\src\org\geotools\data\tiger\TigerDataStoreFactory.java

 Pertti





-----Original Message-----
From: ext Jody Garnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 April 2006 16:20
To: Haggstrom Hans (Nokia-NET/Espoo)

Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tapola Pertti 
(Nokia-NET/Espoo); Richard Gould
Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools license information incorrect 
in the Wiki


[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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