Hi Andrea, I am not sure we would have permission to distribute the JDBC driver with GeoTools or GeoServer due to its licence, but as Jody has said below, given it is marked as "provided" and would not be distributed with GeoTools (the user would have to provide it themselves) that would get around this issue. Less convenient for users, though...
I could ask our legal team if the licence does permit us distributing it - from reading it, I find it hard to tell if it does or doesn't! Cheers George From: Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geosolutionsgroup.com> Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2022 3:55 a.m. To: George Dewar <gde...@linz.govt.nz> Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? Hi George, checking the driver... It has a custom license. I was hoping we were past this, but yeah, we have had proprietary drivers in the past too. Do you know if the combination of GeoTools code with it, or GeoServer code with it, would be considered problematic by lawyers? For the rest, the other bits seem satisfactory and would allow the driver to go straight into support (at least, as far as I can see). I won't be able to perform a review of the PR today, too many other PRs going on. Cheers Andrea On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:51 PM George Dewar <gde...@linz.govt.nz<mailto:gde...@linz.govt.nz>> wrote: Thanks Jody. It's available through Maven - see here<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmvnrepository.com%2Fartifact%2Fcom.ibm.informix%2Fjdbc%2F4.50.7.1&data=04%7C01%7Cgdewar%40linz.govt.nz%7C06269f3ab2f0467cb18b08da10caf124%7C2134e9617e384c34a22b10da5466b725%7C0%7C0%7C637840761087155637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=C9Dw30%2Fp45hDWlpDseL%2F7BYqWNVGXT8yAupPYCR8P5Y%3D&reserved=0>. I think I'll mark it as "provided" as you suggest. From: Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com<mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, 25 March 2022 4:23 a.m. To: George Dewar <gde...@linz.govt.nz<mailto:gde...@linz.govt.nz>> Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? The dependency on the driver is not a problem, if you do not have permission to distribute it as part of geotools you can mark it as "provided" (and it will be up to those installing the datastore to provide there own driver). Is it available from a maven repo anywhere? Or is it truly a manual download process. Jody On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:52 AM George Dewar <gde...@linz.govt.nz<mailto:gde...@linz.govt.nz>> wrote: Hi all, I have just put up a PR to add a JDBC datasource module for Informix<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgeotools%2Fgeotools%2Fpull%2F3828&data=04%7C01%7Cgdewar%40linz.govt.nz%7C06269f3ab2f0467cb18b08da10caf124%7C2134e9617e384c34a22b10da5466b725%7C0%7C0%7C637840761087155637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=yHTyvwzr6gQ0YKPvqr1gwx%2B6tluKb1l0VRQicDDM0qk%3D&reserved=0>, however I didn't realise at first that it should have gone into unsupported first. I don't mind putting it into unsupported first, but Andrea suggested that maybe it could go straight into supported-land if it meets the requirements. Here is my assessment of where it's at: * Visibility/Module Status * For module status (4 stars): * IP - all code is either written from scratch by me, or adapted from the MySQL plugin and in either case, covered by the contributor agreement. The copyright header is present in all files. (tick) * Releasable - no known bugs (tick) * Used in anger - has been used in Production for >1 year via GeoServer (tick) * Optimised - we have not carefully analysed the performance of all aspects of it, but it appears to work efficiently for our use case * Supported - documentation is there, and LINZ is willing to commit some time to support (tick) * In terms of visibility, I'd be happy once it's in to send a separate email just announcing that Informix is now supported. 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I have not yet run the coverage check but I can soon. * Documentation - yes, I added documentation to the same level as other JDBC data sources * Ask to be included in the next release - perhaps that could be a later step? I am very open to the view that it should be in unsupported first as is standard but I figure some tailored advice won't hurt. If it does go in unsupported, does that mean I can't make the online tests run via GitHub actions? 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