Hi Jody,
thanks for your answer. You already provided some links that I had not
found myself.
The technical debt page you linked mentions that the official fork is GPL
and therefor, not usable. However, the actual license is GPL with Classpath
Exception, as far as I understand this license, it would allow commercial
usage. Am I missing something here?
Regards,
Dieter
2014-12-11 19:29 GMT+01:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>:
> Thanks for talking to us - open source license audits happen all the time
> and we appreciate you bringing these issues to the community.
>
> As for vecmath - it is a good concern, and one that has been raised as
> part of the IP review being done by LocationTech (for a couple of projects
> that use GeoTools such as uDig).
>
> We primarily use vecmath for a decent implementation of matrix, and you
> can see some previous email discussions on how we can replace this library.
> When I last looked there was no clear "winner" in this space and one of the
> developers volunteered to code up the little bit of math we depend on
> directly in GeoTools.
>
> Doing a web search shows me adding this to "technical debt" in or wiki:
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Replace+Vecmath (work that
> needs to be done for the good of the community but is not cool enough to
> attract a volunteer or funding).
>
> You may consider joining the locationtech email list
> <https://locationtech.org/mailman/listinfo/location-iwg> and talk this
> over with other concerned projects. The best case would be to gather up
> enough funding to support a developer replacing the use of vecmath in
> GeoTools. If you really need a quick turn around our support page lists
> some commercial support
> <http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html> options.
> --
> Jody
>
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