Martin Desruisseaux created GEOT-4017:
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Summary: Asking permission to copy portion of code in the public
domain
Key: GEOT-4017
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4017
Project: GeoTools
Issue Type: Task
Components: coverage, metadata, referencing
Affects Versions: 2.6.0
Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
Priority: Trivial
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 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 days, 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 written by myself.
* From *metadata* module
** {{DefaultGeographicBoundingBox}}
* From *referencing* module:
** {{GeneralDirectPosition}}
** {{AbstractMathTransform}}
** {{AffineTransform2D}}
** {{ProjectiveTransform}}
** {{GeneralMatrix}}
** {{DefaultGeographicCRS}}
** {{DefaultVerticalCRS}}
** {{DefaultTemporalCRS}}
** {{DefaultGeodeticDatum}}
** {{DefaultPrimeMeridian}}
** {{DefaultEllipsoid}}
* From *coverage* module:
** {{GeneralGridCoordinates}}
** {{GeneralGridEnvelope}}
** {{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.
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