So the location tech migration is moving along fairly well for uDig, to the
point where I have been submitting dependencies for review by the eclipse
foundation. The review goes through the files (much like we did for OSGeo
incubation) and in addition looks at the governance procedures around accepting
new contributions.
(A separate team at IBM china is also performing a review, which is where the
various header fixes has been coming from - hopefully that is now at an end).
On the positive side these are two reviews that have a line of communication
open, and are a good sanity check of the work we did for OSGeo incubation.
Which brings us to the Happy Fun Ball License[1]: GeoTiffIIOMetadataDecoder.java
While I am quite happy this is not a surprise, and is captured in our docs[2],
it nevertheless not a normal license.
Anyone know the history of how we got a hold of this file? Was it contributed
directly to GeoTools, or was based an existing library for reading GeoTiff
headers.
I should also ask if anyone knows Mike Nidel personally, or how he feels about
modifying the associated license.
--
Jody Garnett
[1]
/*
* (c) 2004 Mike Nidel
* (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* Take, Modify, Distribute freely
* Buy, Sell, Pass it off as your own
*
* Use this code at your own risk, the author makes no guarantee
* of performance and retains no liability for the failure of this
* software.
*
* If you feel like it, send any suggestions for improvement or
* bug fixes, or modified source code to m...@gelbin.org (mailto:m...@gelbin.org)
* Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
[2] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html
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