Adrian Custer a écrit :
>> I have found jai_imageio-1.1.jar and jai_codec-1.1.3.jar in the
>> geotools-2.5.2-bin.zip.
>> Therefore it seems that they are distributed and this could represent
>> the same problem involved in distributing our libs.
>
> Sounds like you have found a possible legal issue with GeoTools. I don't
> have any knowledge of those jars, of their contents, and of why we
> thought we had the right to distribute them.
A while ago, we required users to download and install JAI and Image I/O
themself in order to compile and use GeoTools. I was pushing for manual
installation partially because the installer include native libraries anyway.
However we got very high pressure for including those JARs in the distribution.
Asking users to download from Sun and run the "setup.exe" program was considered
too much. I must said that at that time, GeoTools had JAI dependency right at
metadata level (the first module). Since that time, the JAI dependencies has
been reduced (enough for getting referencing to work without JAI), but not
totally removed on GeoTools 2.x trunk. On Geotidy, the separation is now total -
only coverage depends on JAI.
For those wanting the inclusion of those JARs in the GeoTools distribution, I
believe that our understanding was that the GeoTools license applied to Geotools
modules only, not to the dependencies we bundled with it given that those
dependencies were just copied without changes. However maybe we have not
clarified enough this issue...
I don't know what are the GeoTools community intend. On geotidy, I'm still
asking users to install JAI and Image I/O themself, but only if they want to use
coverages...
Martin
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