Ciao Jody, I have exchange a few emails with him in the past. I kind of rememver he move from IT to another field, hence it might not be too easy to reach him. What do we need from him anyway?
Regards, Simone Giannecchini == Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for more information. == Ing. Simone Giannecchini @simogeo Founder/Director GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like some evidence of the author operating on the GDAL project in > 2008, perhaps Frank knows him? > - http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.gdal.devel/month=20080701/page=28 > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 12:52 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > > I found the original discussion during the original OSGeo incubation review: > - > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/IP-Review-of-GeoTIFF-Happy-fun-Ball-td4314359.html > > original contribution: > - > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-JAI-Request-for-comments-GeoTIFF-support-td4317251.html > > And perhaps the original code: > - http://www.gelbin.org/code/ > > And a port (under EPL) in clojure: https://github.com/jburnett31/geotiff > > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 12:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > > So the location tech migration is moving along fairly well for uDig, to the > point where I have been submitting dependencies for review by the eclipse > foundation. The review goes through the files (much like we did for OSGeo > incubation) and in addition looks at the governance procedures around > accepting new contributions. > > (A separate team at IBM china is also performing a review, which is where > the various header fixes has been coming from - hopefully that is now at an > end). > > On the positive side these are two reviews that have a line of communication > open, and are a good sanity check of the work we did for OSGeo incubation. > > Which brings us to the Happy Fun Ball License[1]: > GeoTiffIIOMetadataDecoder.java > > While I am quite happy this is not a surprise, and is captured in our > docs[2], it nevertheless not a normal license. > > Anyone know the history of how we got a hold of this file? Was it > contributed directly to GeoTools, or was based an existing library for > reading GeoTiff headers. > > I should also ask if anyone knows Mike Nidel personally, or how he feels > about modifying the associated license. > -- > Jody Garnett > > [1] > > /* > > * (c) 2004 Mike Nidel > > * (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) > > * > > * (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) > > * > > * Take, Modify, Distribute freely > > * Buy, Sell, Pass it off as your own > > * > > * Use this code at your own risk, the author makes no guarantee > > * of performance and retains no liability for the failure of this > > * software. > > * > > * If you feel like it, send any suggestions for improvement or > > * bug fixes, or modified source code to m...@gelbin.org > > > > * Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. > > > > [2] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > GeoTools-Devel mailing list > GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
