Looks like some evidence of the author operating on the GDAL project in 2008,
perhaps Frank knows him?
- http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.gdal.devel/month=20080701/page=28
--
Jody Garnett
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 12:52 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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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