Thanks a lot Andrea,
I’ll follow those guidelines.
Cheers,
Hugh
From: Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
Date: Monday, 8 February 2021 at 7:02 pm
To: Hugh Saalmans <hugh.saalm...@iag.com.au>
Cc: geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net
<geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [External] Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Including GeoTools in Shaded JARs
- Allowed under LGPL?
Hi Hugh,
with the premise that I'm not a lawyer, I cannot think of a reason why you could
not redistribute GeoTools binaries in a shaded jar.
The LGPL does not require visibility of the project, or advertisement that it's
even
being used (it's just a nice to have), what is mandated, is that if you
redistribute
the binary, then you make the sources available as well (just point to the
github
tag for the version you're distributing), and if you make any change to the
GeoTools sources,
then the modified sources also need to be made available, and they are still
covered
by the LGPL.
Cheers
Andrea
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:54 AM Hugh Saalmans
<hugh.saalm...@iag.com.au<mailto:hugh.saalm...@iag.com.au>> wrote:
Hi,
I’d like to check there’s no issue from the OSGeo side making a set of shaded
JARs with GeoTools embedded publicly available? I don’t know enough about the
LGPL license to know what the impact is of combining Apache and LGPL licensed
software into a set of binaries.
The Apache Software Foundation allow this from their end, but won’t allow the
binaries to be part of an ASF project’s official website or repo for the
reasons below.
Background
Apache Sedona v1.0.0 (formerly GeoSpark) was released over the weekend, giving
Apache Spark users access to “Spark native” geospatial functions and types. As
some of you would know – it uses GeoTools under the hood.
However, due to the Apache Software Foundation’s rule that LGPL licensed
software can’t be included in official releases; the Sedona team can’t publish
binaries that include GeoTools – knocking out a big chunk of Sedona
functionality in the official binaries.
To get full functionality – there’s a fair amount of complexity to install
Sedona with Spark as it would require an end user to do a Maven build. I’m
concerned that Pyspark users, with limited Java/Scala experience, will avoid
Sedona for this reason.
Hence, I’d like to host Apache Sedona shaded JARs with GeoTools embedded; in
either AWS S3 or my employer’s public GitHub repo. …or is there a better place
for them?
Cheers,
Hugh
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