I agree with you Andrea, I would tackle obstacles once at a time, therefore I'd start with including the licenses.txt in our release and then, once we will have straightened out the PMC thing, I guess we will be able to tackle to possibility of changing the license.
Do you (anyone :-) ) think I should make a formal proposal for this step? Simone. ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Owner - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://simboss.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: >>> Hi all, >>> just to clarify. >>> Our goal, is to include gdal support via the imageio-ext plugin in the >>> build for next release as part of our plugins, and this means >>> dragging some imageio-ext dependencies into the build. >>> Since there were questions about licenses we tried to map, with great >>> help from aaime, licensing info from all (most??) geotools >>> dependencies to clarify the situation. >>> I am going to add the module to build today to see if there are any >>> problems. For next release I will create a file (licenses.txt, >>> third-party.txt, whatever.txt?) that we can include in the files we >>> give away so that we sum the result of the license investigation and >>> we cope with the advertisement clause. > > Seems a good way to go in my opinion. It's an improvement over the > opaque situation we had before. > Licensing wise we may consider a switch to LGPLv3 or GPL3+Classpath, > but that's another step, imho it's good to solidify this first one > into a file that gets shipped. third-party-licenses.txt would > be a good name imho. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
