Hi David,
I'm involved with lots of things at LocationTech and the
GeoTools/GeoServer community. JTS is close to get sorted out with a
dual license. That said, GeoTools is still LGPL and will likely remain
so for awhile.
As far as I know, ESRI's Geometry library and JTS aren't immediately
compatible. (I.e., I don't think one is a drop-in replacement for the
other.) Either way, GeoMesa uses GeoTools which leverages JTS. I just
mention that to explain that trying to change the geometry libraries
would not sort out the GeoTools dependency.
I think the profile approach might be best for the medium term.
Cheers,
Jim
On 09/14/2016 12:31 PM, David Lotts wrote:
I am seeing something happening might make this a non-issue in the medium
term. Maybe someone can confirm this. It looks like the LocationTech
community is adopting JTS and (here is my speculation) trying to shed
GeoTools and any dependence on LGPL.
"... induction of JTS
<https://www.locationtech.org/proposals/jts-topology-suite> into the
LocationTech community. The project tasks to address including a license
change from LGPL to BSD/EPL, ..."
found here:
http://boundlessgeo.com/2016/02/locationtech-incubation-sprint-update/
This is great, but Geotools is LGPL only, correct? Third-party code
redistributed by Eclipse (EPL) explicitly excludes LGPL
<https://eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#3RDPARTY>.
But then I see this:
http://boundlessgeo.com/press-release/boundless-ccri-launch-opengeo-suite-geomesa/
Perhaps this will all work out and we can just grab a later version of
GeoMesa with 100% Apache redistributability. :-)
david.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:09 PM, David Lotts <[email protected]> wrote:
Great find Aaron!
The ESRI library is quite comparable!
Rya via Geomesa are using *JTS Topology Suite (*JTS): (the javadocs at
vividsolutions seems to be 404 )
http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/javadoc/com/vividsolutions/jts/geom/
Geometry.html
Far from a drop-in replacement, but a path forward:
http://esri.github.io/geometry-api-java/javadoc/
Interesting, ESRI has Shape file support, but no GML, the opposite of JTS!
david.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Puja Valiyil <[email protected]> wrote:
Could we revive the indexer profile again? Make everything in indexing
only included in that profile? That could push off refactoring the
geoindexing until our next release.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Aaron D. Mihalik <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Yeah, that sounds possible. I don't like the idea of having to maintain
another build/ci/release process, though.
More importantly, we'd also have to modify our GeoIndexer interface [1]
to
something Apache Friendly. It looks like Ersi puts out an Apache 2.0
library [2].
[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-rya/blob/master/
extras/indexing/src/main/java/mvm/rya/indexing/GeoIndexer.java
[2] https://github.com/Esri/geometry-api-java
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:36 PM Jim Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Aaron,
Thanks, wasn't finding that list quickly...
It sounds like the GeoMesa/GeoTools usage might fall under this Q/A:
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional.
Thoughts?
Jim
On 9/13/2016 9:25 PM, Aaron D. Mihalik wrote:
Jim,
We've been working off of these lists:
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:07 PM Jim Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi David,
A number of the geo-dependencies are likely from the geo-indexing
(which
uses GeoMesa (Apache 2.0) which uses GeoTools and JTS).
Are there options to make the geoindexing a profile, provide the
source,
and not provide artifacts for that code at Apache?
Also, is there a list of approved licenses for Apache projects
dependencies?
Cheers,
Jim
On 09/13/2016 05:46 PM, David Lotts wrote:
This issue is a release blocker:
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RYA-179>
RYA-179 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RYA-179> Review
License /
Copyright notices on Rya Artifacts
I was able to create a 3rd party dependency license report for Rya
from the license
maven plugin.
<http://www.mojohaus.org/license-maven-plugin/>
Good: I can send the full list if you like. Mostly ASL and clearly
permitted.
Okay: A number of CDDL and CPL licenses -- permitted if no source
code
is
included.
Needs Improvement: The following are not clearly permitted
licenses:
(cern.colt MIT license see
https://dst.lbl.gov/ACSSoftware/colt/license.html) colt
(colt:colt:1.2.0 -
no url defined)
-- this is a mistake, should be java.util.Arrays, not
cern.colt.Arrays -- creating an issue to eliminate dependency.
(GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) JCalendar
(com.toedter:jcalendar:1.1.4 - http://www.toedter.com/en/
jcalendar/)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) JTS Topology Suite
(com.vividsolutions:jts:1.13 -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Image I/O-Extensions
-
GeoCore
(it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-geocore:1.1.13 - no url
defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Image I/O-Extensions
-
Custom
Streams (it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-streams:1.1.13 -
no
url
defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Improved TIFF Plugin
(it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-tiff:1.1.13 - no url
defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Image I/O-Extensions
-
utilities classes and methods
(it.geosolutions.imageio-ext:imageio-ext-utilities:1.1.13 - no url
defined)
(Unknown license) jai_codec (javax.media:jai_codec:1.1.3 -
no
url
defined)
(Unknown license) jai_core (javax.media:jai_core:1.1.3 - no
url
defined)
(Unknown license) jai_imageio (javax.media:jai_imageio:1.1 -
no
url
defined)
(Unknown license) jgridshift (jgridshift:jgridshift:1.0 - no
url
defined)
(GNU Lesser General Public License) Remote Tea Runtime
(org.acplt:oncrpc:1.0.7 - http://remotetea.sourceforge.net/)
(Unknown license) Antlr 3.4 Runtime
(org.antlr:antlr-runtime:3.4 -
http://www.antlr.org)
(Unknown license) Jettison (org.codehaus.jettison:
jettison:1.1
- no
url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) API interfaces
(org.geotools:gt-api:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Grid Coverage module
(org.geotools:gt-coverage:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) OGC CQL to Filter
parser
(org.geotools:gt-cql:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) DataStore Support
(org.geotools:gt-data:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Feature Based Graphs
and
Networks (org.geotools:gt-graph:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Vector grids
(org.geotools:gt-grid:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Main module
(org.geotools:gt-main:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Metadata
(org.geotools:gt-metadata:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) (OGC copyright) Open
GIS
Interfaces (org.geotools:gt-opengis:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Process
(org.geotools:gt-process:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Process Feature
(org.geotools:gt-process-feature:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Referencing services
(org.geotools:gt-referencing:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Render
(org.geotools:gt-render:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Shapefile module
(org.geotools:gt-shapefile:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) Feature transforming
feature
source wrapper (org.geotools:gt-transform:14.1 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) XML Parsing
(org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-core:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) GML2 XML Support
(org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-gml2:14.3 - no url defined)
(Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) GML3 XML Support
(org.geotools.xsd:gt-xsd-gml3:14.3 - no url defined)
david.
