On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:23 +0200, Simone Giannecchini wrote: > Hi all, > As I mentioned in some previous emails, our goal for the imageio-ext > project is mitigate as much as possible the risk of introducing a > dependency which relies on a native library, even though such native > library is well known as GDAL is. > Having this objective in mind as well as the fact that imageio-ext is > an open source project as well whose code is available on a public svn > we have been , we are and we have always been open to > suggestions/advice/RFEs, in a word collaboration. > Therefore, in light of collaboration, if you have specific issues to > report, like the one that you correctly reported (and that we already > fixed) we are happy to take care of them, if, of course, you can share > them with us. > Moreover, if you have specific doubts/suggestions/criticism on the > library, it would be great if you could detail them them a bit on the > imageio-ml as I suggested already in the past, because otherwise it > would be just us wasting our time trying to guess/understand what the > reported problem could be. > > > Ciao, > Simone.
Yes, I can imagine it would be nice for me to formalize all this for you, to take the time to do a full review of your work, to document in detail all the issues legal and otherwise with your library. The elegant thing would be for me to do that and file a useful bug report against your project. I'm not inclined to do that work for you because I have other priorities. Because it seemed Geotools was going to formally depend on your project, I took a quick look at it. I did notice that your code has been copied from lots of different sources. A few files make it illegal for me to download your project. Others appear at first analysis to conflict with the LGPL license you claim for your project so make it illegal for me to distribute a copy of the jars I compile on my local machine under the terms stated for Geotools. You may or may not want to address the issues I think I stumbled on---that's of course up to you. If you want to take the time someday, you might want to start by opening all your files, reading their headers and ensure (1) they are all legal to distribute (2) they all match the license of your project. You might also want to accumulate a list for your users of all the places from which you have taken code even if it's all shared under exactly the same license. A formal review would be more involved than those quick first steps. So maybe that interests you and maybe not, that's all up to you. either way good luck, adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
