Hi Jody, Andrea, All
I'd like to share, the working group now has a name. It is known as
LocationTech. The web site for it will go on-line later this summer.
As Jody noted below, we knew some obvious software that would be
popular/commonly used such as Geotools, JTS, and GEOS. We asked for, and
received permission to re-distribute them when they're used by projects
hosted at LocationTech. This request was presented along with the
approval request for creating LocationTech, which was also approved.
Our IP team gets involved to review dependencies & their licenses as
part of reviewing project proposals. Once they have completed their
analysis, they'll be in a position to comment on any issues they found
and possibly recommendations to address them.
Andrew
On 06/25/2012 09:47 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
I don't think it was brought up.
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Jody Garnett
On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 5:32 PM, andrea antonello wrote:
Hi Jody, Andrew,
Small update since it is of interest here.
The location working group got the go ahead from the Eclipse board,
along with an LGPL exception
(allowing the use of JTS and GeoTools).
can you please elaborate how they handled the license of the JAI
libraries? Those have a very strange license, which in my opinion
would not be compatible with the EPL.
Is there any report that explains how the different packages and libs
were evaluated?
I think it is mandatory to shade a light on this once for all before
we move on.
Ciao,
Andrea
It apparently takes a month or so to set up a working group, so we
have August as an estimated timeframe.
Once the group has a name it will be easier to talk about and
promote our involvement.
Jody
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