On 17/05/11 16:47, andrea antonello wrote: > Hi Ben, > I am quite sure this is a leftover of a previous JGrass coauthor > (basically I didn't know it was licensed) . I have to check how much > it is needed. Maybe it can be removed.
I think rgb.txt is almost in the public domain, by common usage. It has been used and extended by many including Netscape Navigator and its descendants. And most X11 applications including Tk. I wonder if just a comment attributing the origin would be sufficient? I do not think the colour table it should be removed. > Regarding the tokenizer I am quite sure I checked license > compatibility and then put the geotools header on top, leaving also > the old reference. Thinking about it back then it seemed the proper > way to me, but now I agree with you. I am not sure what should be > done. Can other license headers stay were they are if compatible, > right? Should it be mentioned? The tokenizer is perfectly compatible (LGPLv2). The Format class is the one that requires a new license statement when shipped: "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution." -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineering Team Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
