Hi Ben, I don't think there will be any issues moving them across. Technically topp owns copyright on GeoServer code, but in cases such as these (and i could be wrong here) topp is willing to give up copyright and assign it to Geotools directly.
So i think the easiest path would be just to do the move and assign a regular geotools / osgeo copyright header. As for keeping svn history I am not sure that will be easy since they are in different svn repositories. If its easy to svn dump and import a single file then i would do that... but otherwise I would just manually copy the file over, maybe noting the original location in the GeoServer repo to that is someone really wants to dig up the history can. -Justin Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I am considering moving some of the community-schemas code base from > GeoServer to GeoTools. This raises several issues. > > (1) Is there any copyright or licensing problem moving GeoServer code to > GeoTools? > > (2) Which copyright headers should they use? Their original ones, or > should they be changed to the new project? > > (3) Is there a best/preferred practice for how to do this? Dumb copy > (losing history), svnadmin dump ... > > The code in question includes the WFS binding overrides in the wfs-c > fork in the 1.6.x branch. Having these binding overrides in GeoServer > prevents any GeoTools unit tests from touching them. This has allowed > some deficiencies in GeoTools community-schemas-ds to persist for far > too long. The key problem is that the existing GeoTools > community-schemas-ds unit tests cover feature construction but not > encoding, and there are no useful unit tests(!) for GeoServer > community-schemas. Half of the action happens during encoding, so this > is a big problem. This situation can be remedied by moving the bindings > to GeoTools, and doing a lot of work to retrofit unit tests. > > I won't be moving this code right away, but it has to be done. It should > probably be done when we port community-schemas to trunk, to minimise > the carnage. > -- Justin Deoliveira The Open Planning Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
