Jody,
I am afraid I don't have contact with this Mike.
PS. Don't taunt Happy Fun Ball.
On Jul 20, 2013 7:57 AM, "Jody Garnett" <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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****
>
> ** **
>
> ** Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.*
>
>
>
> [2] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html
>
>
>
>
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