On 06/17/2013 09:35 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All -
I am not in the Java world, but this license issue raised by Johan
sounds potentially serious..
I am a geoserver user.. it is my understanding that JAI us explicitly
optional in Geoserver.
I dont know the details of the other Java apps, but the Geoserver case,
and the license
cited, causes me to question the statement that all Java geo apps depend
on JAI.
It depends on what JAI you refer to. If it's the pure java version, it's
mandatory and every application
built on top of GeoTools needs it. The dependency is pervasive, no raster
processing of any kind
is possible without it (e.g., not even scaling images) unless we embark on
a massive rewrite.
This means also uDig and potentially GeoMajas and 52N would be affected.
Deegree is not based on GeoTools, but i believe it's using JAI as well.
If it's the native library accelerators for JAI we're talking about
instead, those are indeed optional
Cheers
Andrea
Look like were talking about
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/precise/jai-core
Pull the orig to see the odd JRL vs JDL licenses.
imageio appears to have a safe to use license.
Thanks,
Alex
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