Dear Adrian, I do not seem to remember than anyone have asked you to do any work on his behalf, at least neither me or daniele. You have raised a specific concern which we have already addressed, but also "threatened" to have other unspecified concerns/issues/problems which are causing headaches. Now, I have no reasons to doubt that these problems exist, therefore I just asked you to tell us ( all..) about them so that we can take proper actions. Of course you have the freedom to ignore this simple request, but then of course I would strongly suggest that the GeoTools PMC would ignore such unspecified concerns and rollback any action you take based on them. By the way, I would like to remind that GeoTools is an open source program run by a PMC, as such, you might want to consider the following workflow for the future
issue --> discussion --> PMC decision --> action Thank you for your collaboration, Simone. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Adrian Custer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:23 +0200, Simone Giannecchini wrote: >> Hi all, >> As I mentioned in some previous emails, our goal for the imageio-ext >> project is mitigate as much as possible the risk of introducing a >> dependency which relies on a native library, even though such native >> library is well known as GDAL is. >> Having this objective in mind as well as the fact that imageio-ext is >> an open source project as well whose code is available on a public svn >> we have been , we are and we have always been open to >> suggestions/advice/RFEs, in a word collaboration. >> Therefore, in light of collaboration, if you have specific issues to >> report, like the one that you correctly reported (and that we already >> fixed) we are happy to take care of them, if, of course, you can share >> them with us. >> Moreover, if you have specific doubts/suggestions/criticism on the >> library, it would be great if you could detail them them a bit on the >> imageio-ml as I suggested already in the past, because otherwise it >> would be just us wasting our time trying to guess/understand what the >> reported problem could be. >> >> >> Ciao, >> Simone. > > Yes, I can imagine it would be nice for me to formalize all this for > you, to take the time to do a full review of your work, to document in > detail all the issues legal and otherwise with your library. The elegant > thing would be for me to do that and file a useful bug report against > your project. I'm not inclined to do that work for you because I have > other priorities. > > Because it seemed Geotools was going to formally depend on your project, > I took a quick look at it. I did notice that your code has been copied > from lots of different sources. A few files make it illegal for me to > download your project. Others appear at first analysis to conflict with > the LGPL license you claim for your project so make it illegal for me to > distribute a copy of the jars I compile on my local machine under the > terms stated for Geotools. > > You may or may not want to address the issues I think I stumbled > on---that's of course up to you. If you want to take the time someday, > you might want to start by opening all your files, reading their headers > and ensure (1) they are all legal to distribute (2) they all match the > license of your project. You might also want to accumulate a list for > your users of all the places from which you have taken code even if it's > all shared under exactly the same license. A formal review would be more > involved than those quick first steps. So maybe that interests you and > maybe not, that's all up to you. > > either way good luck, > adrian > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
