Re: [Jts-topo-suite-user] A major step along the road to LocationTech

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:21:33AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote:
> Not sure I follow.  The files have been updated to indicate the licenses.
> What do you think they should say?

What they say now is ok, about copyright ownership:

 * Copyright (C) 2016 Vivid Solutions

About applied license there's the AND issue (this is about the
single file, not the whole project, so either one or another
license is likely to apply):

 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html), and the Vivid Solutions BSD
 * License v1.0 (found at the root of the repository).

Then, the LICENSE* files on the root should just contain the license,
with eventual copyright ownership of the license itself, but not copyright
ownership of the code it applies to.

LICENSE_VSI_BSD3.txt is weird in thi reguard because it starts with
"Copyright (c) 2016, Vivid Solutions Inc." which would likely mean
"Vivid Solutions" has copyright over the BSD3 license text, which is
unlikely. Same with LICENSE_MDAVIS_BSD3.txt. I think it should just
be LICENSE_BSD3, and "Vivid Solutions Inc." and "Martin Davis" should
only be in each of the source files.

Eventually, for an overview, a COPYING file could express the
licensing layout of the whole codebase mentioning roughly which
parts are under which license and owned by whom.

Does it sound ?

--strk;

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Re: [Jts-topo-suite-user] A major step along the road to LocationTech

[Jody Garnett]

Hey Sandro -

I am checking against the uDig project - here is an example CswCatalog.java

that
is similar to the one you provided. My understanding is the file is being
distributed under the EPL and BSD license (and the person who uses the
software gets to choose which one they use).

The uDig project has not graduated from incubation yet so it may not be the
best example (although I did lots of research when changing license). Do
you have another example we could look at?

I think there was a distinct "vivid solutions" BSD license - and although
there are two files only one of them is titled "Vivid Solutions BSD License
v1.0".

Great to talk this through - we so need to recruit you to help mentor
projects in incubation.

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On 29 January 2016 at 10:50, Sandro Santilli  wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:03:33PM +, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > The dual license amounts to BSD so we can work with everyone, and EPL if
> > you are concerned about patents.
> >
> > When using the code you can choose which of the two licenses your
> > organization finds appropriate.
>
> The comment on top of some files do not clearly state this.
> From DiscreteHausdorffDistance.java [1]:
>
>   All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
>   are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
>   (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html), and the Vivid Solutions BSD
>   License v1.0 (found at the root of the repository).
>
> So it says EPL _and_ BSD, rather than EPL _or_ BSD.
> Also, it is not clear which BSD license is being used as the root has
> two different LICENSE*BSD.txt files [2]
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/dr-jts/jts/blob/master/modules/core/src/main/java/org/locationtech/jts/algorithm/distance/DiscreteHausdorffDistance.java#L8-L11
> [2] https://github.com/dr-jts/jts
>
> --strk;
>
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