Bryce L Nordgren wrote: > As to my public domain stuff, I think we inquired a couple of times about > this. The result, as I recall, being that OSGEO is comfortable just > slapping their own license on it. At worst, if OSGEO lawyers fear > retribution (e.g., lawsuit, missile attack, "accidental" fires, etc.) they > can make a paper trail by sending a written Freedom of Information Act > (FOIA) request to the Rocky Mountain Research Station contact on the > following page: http://www.usda.gov/da/foia_service_centers.htm. Request > the GeoTIFF plugin to GeoTools and name me, Bryce Nordgren of the Missoula > Fire Science Laboratory, (406) 829-6955 as the custodian. You'll get a > tarball from your subversion server, but your butt will be as completely > covered as it is possible to be in this lawyer-riddled society.
Bryce / Jody, I don't see any problem with the Geotools project applying any license or copyright it chooses to material placed in the public domain. I have no comment at this time on Happy Fun Ball. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGF, http://osgeo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
