Adrian Custer ha scritto: > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:17 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote: > ... >>> Adrian Custer ha scritto: >>>> How did you resolve the 'advertising clause' issue? Are we expecting to >>>> change all our docs to include the credit requested by SUN? > ... >> Reading into this GNU document about the nature of the >> BSD issue: >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html >> >> It really seems the only issue GNU sees is a matter of >> practicality, that is, that if you have 70 different >> BSD style licenses, you have to add "full page ad" to >> the material you distribute to cite all of them... >> >> As usual, no lawyer, so I may be just plain wrong. > > That is my understanding as well. The GeoTools project and all dependent > projects would gain the obligation to cite SUN in their core project > document. Essentially, GeoTools becomes licensed under 'LGPL + > documentation obligation', if you will. > > This is not incompatible but will be more work and imposes a new > obligation so the change should be undertaken as a conscious decision > rather than happen as an un-intended side-effect of other work.
What about the following: - someone takes a binary distribution of GeoTools, goes thru all the extra jas, and makes up a page with deps and their licenses. A simple table with the jar names grouped per license, and a reference to the license would do, wouldn't it? - we make it a project procedure that whoever adds a dependency to any supported module has to update that page - we also make it a project procedure that the release manager double checks the jars around during the release and sees if all of them are covered in the license page If that is ok, I'm ready to throw in a weekend of mine to setup the above wiki page Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
