On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:53 +0200, Simone Giannecchini wrote: > Ciao Adrian, > please read below... > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Adrian Custer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 20:54 +0200, Adrian Custer wrote: > >> Okay Simone, > >> > >> I will be nothing but dry with you. > >> > >> > >> A class on which you are listed as the single author cannot be legally > >> included in our LGPL project. > > > > i.e. > > > > There exists in the coverage module a class on which you are listed as > > the author and no one else is listed as such. That listing makes it > > appear that you are responsible for this file. That file cannot be > > included in an LGPL project because the additional header is directly in > > conflict with the LGPL. > > If I am the only author, do you think it is possible for me to do > something to improve the situation (besides removing the file for good > of course)? Changing the license or such? > > > Thx, > Simone.
I have absolutely no idea. I have not looked at the file contents, nor its history, nor the Sun code, nor do I have any clue what it does. Since there is code from Sun, we can't just change the license, that should be clear. I would imagine that the cleanest course of action from a copyright point of view would be to rewrite the code from scratch. For one file, I would imagine it would not take too long: take the file, keep the method names, return types and parameters but chop out all the code, document what each method is supposed to do, and then give the result to someone new to implement or do it yourself if you feel you can honestly say you don't remember how Sun did the part you took from them. But again, that's pure speculation---I'm working through the whole code base changing the headers and looking for obvious wierdnesses. I'm not trying to resolve those but merely assessing if the wierd is okay or not. Then, I'm hoping you maintainers can resolve the issues which are problematic like this one. --adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
