Ok, we will proceed with signing and sending the document. We have just used freely available documentation so then it seems ok, thank's for the comment.
Regards Mauritz -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Andrea Aime [mailto:[email protected]] Skickat: den 27 november 2009 11:27 Till: Bomark Mauritz Kopia: Jody Garnett; [email protected] Ämne: Re: SV: [Geotools-devel] Module for reading ESRI mapcache 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/Decons > tructing-the-map-cache-tiling-scheme-_2800_Part-II_29003A00_-Working-w > ith-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 -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
