Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
> I would like to remove the following package from Geotools:
>
> http://javadoc.geotools.fr/snapshot/org/geotools/nature/package-summary.html
>
> and give it to the JScience project instead (http://www.jscience.org). Those 
> classes are not used 
> anywhere in Geotools. They are about Earth Sciences (oceanography) and 
> astronomy, which is out of 
> the scope of a GIS library. The JScience project seems a more appropriate 
> home for them.
>
> However, JScience uses a BSD-like license. Since the above-cited classes are 
> Copyright Geotools PMC, 
> I ask authorization from Geotools PMC to relicense the org.geotools.nature 
> package from LGPL to BSD 
> in order to transfert it to the JScience project.
>
> Do we have a majority? I'm +1.
>   
I have no problem, ask if they can/do retain the 2006 (C) GeoTools  
please? (Even though I do not care I am interested to see how they do it).

+1
Sounds like you can proceed when you get to +5 (hopefully before the 
next IRC meeting).

Jody



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