Joe L a écrit :
> I work on a government contract, and your GIS tools look like something
> we could use. I know you're released under LGPL (AFAIK). This would
> usually be fine, but we're releasing our product using ULC
> (www.canoo.com <http://www.canoo.com>), which means that we will
> probably be required to make some changes to the software in order for
> it to work across the interface. This is where the problem arises, my
> employer wouldn't be able to release the source code. I was wondering
> if there is another licensing option, or am I going to have to look for
> another solution?
There is good chances that you still can use Geotools. According the LGPL
license, if you modify the Geotools source code, you have to release the
modified code. However if you subclass a Geotools class, your subclass still
under your own copyright. For example if you create your own DataStore
implementation by subclassing a Geotools class, your implementation stay yours.
In an ideal world, all Geotools classes should be extensible. It may happen
that
some Geotools classes are not easily extensible and need to be modified. If
such
case happen, I guess that it should be possible to apply to Geotools code only
the changes required in order to extend it more easily (those changes would
need
to be released but this is not sensible technology), and keep the proprietary
code in your Geotools subclasses.
Martin
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