On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:13:09AM +0000, Robert Osfield wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 10:19 PM, Jolley, Thomas P <[email protected]> wrote: > > The osgPlugins looks like an interesting mishmash of copyright notices, > > missing notices, very few license terms, and some wild claims. You have > > to like the geo loader code that claims it is proprietary and has trade > > secrets. > > Perhaps Geoff Michel the author of the code can clarify. The > development of the Geo plugin was funded by Carbon Graphics and was > contributed as a standard part of the OSG as open source so any > copyright notices inherited from Geo headers just need clarification, > if Carbon Graphics can't agree to change the notice then it'll be a > case of pulling the plugin. > > Robert.
Can we remove the geo osgPlugin from OpenSceneGraph trunk? The "This software contains proprietary information and trade secrets of Carbon Graphics LLC.", notice in the geo osgPlugin came up in a source code review. Reasons for pulling, - I've been told the company isn't around anymore. The company website is up for grabs, www.carbongraphics.com at least the Google cache shows that it is was the correct web page. As you mentioned Robert, if they don't agree to change it (and if they aren't around they can't), then it's a case of pulling the plugin. - I had a hard time finding any information about the file format on Google making me think that the file format isn't commonly used anymore. As the company isn't around, it won't be expanded, and from one web link OSG was pointed to as the only public source code available to read the file format. - from svn history the last feature addition I see was commit 4752, 2005-11-12 nearly 8 years ago, later commits are keeping it compiling or part of global OSG code cleanup - Keeping the code just compiling as OSG changes requires some amount of effort, unless there are users that's time that can be better spent on other parts of the code. As it has been five years since this has been brought up and the code still lists propreitary I think it would be best to just remove it. -- David Fries <[email protected]> PGP pub CB1EE8F0 http://fries.net/~david/ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
