Hi Again Martin:
We do have a precendent for public domain code; in the form of our examples
used in the documentation.
What I would like to do is make a Jira issue out of your request so we can
track its progress.
If we need me to do the work as a GeoTools project member, I may be able to
make it worth my while by writing some documentation pages that uses the
classes you mention.
--
Jody Garnett
On Monday, 16 January 2012 at 10:28 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
> Hello all
>
> A few months ago, I started to provide examples of GeoAPI implementations in
> the
> public domain. The hope is to encourage GeoAPI adoption by allowing any
> implementors, open source or commercial, to take inspiration from this code
> with
> no obligation at all, not even obligation to acknowledge the
> borrowing/copying
> in any way. Many of those examples are derived and simplified from
> Geotoolkit.org (http://Geotoolkit.org) code and put in the public domain by
> ourselves, since we wrote
> that code.
>
> However now I would like to copy some portions of code that I wrote in
> GeoTools
> 2.6 time, for example AffineTransform2D (not the full class, only portions of
> it). This code is copyrighted OSGeo, but OSGeo holds such copyright only on
> behalf of projects. I have been suggested to ask GeoTools PSC to make a
> motion
> supporting the assignment, and the GeoTools PSC chair/board liason to declare
> it
> in force on behalf of OSGeo (as an officer of the foundation). Consequently,
> I
> would like GeoTools PSC permission to copy in the public domain (no copyright
> holder) small portion (mostly getters and trivial methods) of following
> classes
> inherited from Geotools 2.6. I would like to stress out that the code I want
> to
> copy was fully writen by myself - they were no contributor other than myself
> as
> far as I know.
>
> * From *metadata* module
> o DefaultGeographicBoundingBox
> * From *referencing* module:
> o GeneralDirectPosition
> o AbstractMathTransform
> o AffineTransform2D
> o ProjectiveTransform
> o GeneralMatrix
> o DefaultGeographicCRS
> o DefaultVerticalCRS
> o DefaultTemporalCRS
> o DefaultGeodeticDatum
> o DefaultPrimeMeridian
> o DefaultEllipsoid
> * From *coverage* module:
> o GeneralGridCoordinates
> o GeneralGridEnvelope
> o GeneralGridGeometry
>
>
> On the bright side for GeoTools, I'm putting in public domain much more code
> than what I'm asking for (wrappers around the Proj.4 C/C++ library, wrappers
> around the NetCDF library, OpenOffice add-in, "simple" implementation
> examples...), which allows GeoTools to take whatever code under their own
> copyright if they wish.
>
> Note that only the GeoAPI examples, demos and wrappers code are put in the
> public domain. The GeoAPI interfaces themselves and the conformance test
> suite
> still under OGC copyright with a BSD-like open source license.
>
> Do I have the GeoTools PSC permission to put portions of above-cited classes
> in
> the public domain?
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin Desruisseaux
>
>
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