Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-04-07 Thread George Dewar
Thanks Andrea! I have updated the PR accordingly. From: Andrea Aime Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2022 8:06 p.m. To: George Dewar Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:21 PM George Dewar

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-04-06 Thread David Adler
? Cheers George *From:*Andrea Aime *Sent:* Monday, 4 April 2022 8:46 p.m. *To:* George Dewar *Cc:* geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:10 PM George Dewar wrote: Hi Andrea, I

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-04-06 Thread Andrea Aime
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:21 PM George Dewar wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > > > I have found that the package in Maven is actually linked to from the IBM > website, which proves at least that it is there with the full blessing of > IBM. > > > > > https://www.ibm.com/docs/ar/informix-servers/14.10?topic=

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-04-05 Thread George Dewar
orge Dewar Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:10 PM George Dewar mailto:gde...@linz.govt.nz>> wrote: Hi Andrea, I am not sure we would have permission to distribute the JDBC driver with GeoT

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-04-04 Thread Andrea Aime
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:10 PM George Dewar wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > > > I am not sure we would have permission to *distribute* the JDBC driver > with GeoTools or GeoServer due to its licence, but as Jody has said below, > given it is marked as “provided” and would not be distributed with GeoToo

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-29 Thread George Dewar
r Cc: geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? Hi George, checking the driver... It has a custom license. I was hoping we were past this, but yeah, we have had proprietary drivers in the past too. Do you know if the

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-28 Thread Andrea Aime
ls-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - > supported or not? > > > > The dependency on the driver is not a problem, if you do not have > permission to distribute it as part of geotools you can mark it as > "pro

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-24 Thread George Dewar
evel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not? The dependency on the driver is not a problem, if you do not have permission to distribute it as part of geotools you can mark it as "provided" (and it will be up to those installin

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-24 Thread Jody Garnett
The dependency on the driver is not a problem, if you do not have permission to distribute it as part of geotools you can mark it as "provided" (and it will be up to those installing the datastore to provide there own driver). Is it available from a maven repo anywhere? Or is it truly a manual dow

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Prins
On 24-03-2022 09:37, George Dewar wrote: IP check - is the dependency on the Informix JDBC driver a problem? If so, is there a solution? The license is probably a problem for redistribution (as in: when the the driver jar fil

[Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC datasource plugin - supported or not?

2022-03-24 Thread George Dewar
Hi all, I have just put up a PR to add a JDBC datasource module for Informix, however I didn't realise at first that it should have gone into unsupported first. I don't mind putting it into unsupported first, but Andrea suggested that maybe it cou

Re: [Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC Datasource Plugin

2020-11-04 Thread Jody Garnett
Welcome George, Additional plugins are very much welcomed and encouraged to work in the geotools repository! -- Jody Garnett On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 19:52, George Dewar wrote: > Hi all, > > Land Information NZ is considering using GeoServer with our survey and > title system (Landonline) which i

[Geotools-devel] Informix JDBC Datasource Plugin

2020-11-02 Thread George Dewar
Hi all, Land Information NZ is considering using GeoServer with our survey and title system (Landonline) which is currently running on an Informix database. As a proof of concept, I have developed an Informix data source plugin (adapted from the MySQL one). Considering GeoTools' "talk first" pol