Hi David, I'm inclined to think it's safe to remove it as it's for a defunct product and likely to mostly out of use now.
Licensing side is a bit murky, the intent for sure was that it was to be open sourced, and made open source in full knowledge and support of Carbon Graphics so it's really just a case of not dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's. Since Carbon Graphics is no longer around we'd need to talk to the original company owner/author. Anyone still in contact with him? The chance of anyone actually being taken to court by someone who buys up the rights to Carbon Graphics is pretty slim, and given the original intent was to open source it they'd have little to stand upon in court. I think this risk is close to zero, it's basically hypothetical. Code maintenance wise the effort level is close to zero. Overall I'd say that if no one is using it then there is little reason to have it, and given there is lack of clarity on licensing there is no Robert. On 22 May 2013 15:38, David Fries <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ?
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