Bomark Mauritz ha scritto:
> Have been reading the code contribution aggreement. Seems like our
> legal department at Lantmäteriet needs to take a look at it before we
> sign. Andrea mentioned that it perhaps was not needed for community
> modules, is there anyone that can clearify this?

I cannot help here. But for sure the module cannot become an
official part of GeoTools releases until it gets into supported
land (we don't redistribute without having assigned copyright
to OSGeo first).

> Another question that came up reading the document is the mapcache
> format status. ESRI is documenting it at their website, so it seems
> open enough.
> 
> http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2008/01/31/Deconstructing-the-map-cache-tiling-scheme-_2800_Part-II_29003A00_-Working-with-map-caches-programmatically.aspx
> 
> 
> What are the experiences reading an publishing/distributing readers
> for different kind of formats ArcSDE, Oracle and so forth considering
> legal matters?

I'm no legal expert so take this just as my opinion, but as far as I
understand it, as long as you develop the software using only freely
available documentation that does not require to accept an agreement
before being seen you're good to go

Cheers
Andrea

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