I found the original discussion during the original OSGeo incubation review:
-
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/IP-Review-of-GeoTIFF-Happy-fun-Ball-td4314359.html
original contribution:
-
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-JAI-Request-for-comments-GeoTIFF-support-td4317251.html
And perhaps the original code:
- http://www.gelbin.org/code/
And a port (under EPL) in clojure: https://github.com/jburnett31/geotiff
--
Jody Garnett
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 12:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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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