Martin the geotools project which you approached earlier has not had a chance to look into your request yet with any degree of care. As an example we had not gotten around to checking the code contribution agreement yet.
The community process takes time, I was unable to attend the meeting ( due to a conflict with incubation meeting ) and apparently my input was requested as I had a hand in the incubation process. Part of working with others involves making allowances for their time; especially when herding volunteers. Two points of clarity: - LocationTech was only motioned in passing as you had approached the IRC channel, and perhaps as uDig is chasing after its long standing goal of being more involved with eclipse. If you need to refer to my actions please reference me by name; I am up front with my goals and have no agenda. - there has been no vote or decision on how to proceed by the geotools community. Justin attempted to summarize discussion but is as of yet still checking facts. Try and relax and work constructively with others. If you want you can help me write the RFC to assemble the information for PMC review. Currently i am spending more of my volunteer time writing email with you then helping you at the moment. One thing that is getting lost in this is that you should have many options for finding a community. -- Jody Garnett On 20/07/2012, at 7:03 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <martin.desruisse...@geomatys.fr> wrote: > Hello all > > This is my first post on this mailing list. I'm Martin Desruisseaux, a former > GeoTools 2 contributor and now a developer of the Geotoolkit.org project. > > In our search for a community, we had a recent discussion with members of the > Apache Spatial Information System project (http://incubator.apache.org/sis/), > which is in incubation. A small email exchange gave me the feeling that our > design goals could be in phase. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sis-dev/201207.mbox/browser > (see the "Exploring possible contribution" thread) > > We would like to offer them the Geotoolkit.org code. In order to make that > possible, we need OSGeo permission to re-license Geotoolkit.org from its > current LGPL 2.1 license to the more permissive Apache license. The proposal > is not to transfer the totality of Geotoolkit.org to Apache SIS, but to allow > them to review the code and pick-up whatever they wish on a case-by-case > basis. The transition to Apache SIS would probably be slow and very > progressive. > > Geotoolkit.org is a fork of GeoTools 2.6 followed by 4 years of developments. > The project contains two parts: "core" and "pending". Our proposal is to > begin with the "core" part, which was written (according SVN history) at 95% > by myself, Geomatys or IRD institute. The remaining 5% were written by other > GeoTools contributors. To my knowledge, everyone signed the copyright > assignment on http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/, which gives copyright > to OSGeo. > > We would like OSGeo permission to re-license that code. I would like to > emphases that this is not a demand for relicensing current GeoTools, but only > relicensing of the GeoTools 2.6 code from which Geotoolkit.org is derived, > which is 4 years old. If OSGeo accepts to grant us permission to relicense > 100% of Geotoolkit.org "core", that would be truly appreciated. But in case > of objection, we are willing to rewrite the 5% of "core" code which was not > written by myself, Geomatys or IRD. > > If OSGeo accepts re-licensing, it would allows Apache SIS to gain services > they are currently missing, allows Geotoolkit.org code base to gain a > community, and possibly allows the GeoTools project to gain a trusted and > maintained metadata and referencing libraries which could replace their > current modules, if they wish. > > Would it be possible to take this action? > > Regards, > > Martin Desruisseaux > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
