Adrian Custer ha scritto: > Hey Andrea, > > I happened to notice you added imageio-ext to the build. It's cool that > we can build without GDAL but unfortunately, for the reasons explained > below, I have reverted that change on trunk at revision 31151. I expect > that you will have to do the same on the 2.5 branch prior to release > but, since that is critical for your work, I'll leave you to do the > change when it works for you. > > > As I understood things, the imageio-ext was isolated to a build profile > for as long as it would take for the imageio-ext project to mature. Then > we planned to have a formal review of that dependency like all the > others and after that include it formally in Geotools. Unfortunately, > this work is not yet done. > > Critically, a quick perusal of all the code files in imageio-ext shows > that it's illegal for us to use. Legally we don't have the right even to > read certain files (PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL) and there's at least one > other issue I saw that makes it impossible for us to simply include in > our build. That stuff will have to be cleared up in a convincing way.
Looked into it, the file in question has been removed from their svn. Thanks for noticing it, it was indeed problematic license wise. > Hopefully, imageio-ext will undergo a formal review of its own, clean up > what needs cleaning, and make an initial release when it's ready. After > that, Geotools will be able to consider the formal dependency. What would the review consist of? Second observation, sorry if a bit sarcastic, but to be fair, shouldn't we check that every library we're using goes thought a formal review process? Did anybody formally check that all the libraries we depend onto are clean license wise? Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
