Hi Jody,
I'm not sure of legal implication but could we remove the license altogether.
It states in the license 'Pass it off as your own'.
I think that removing this unusual license would fall under this allowance.
Also it doesn't say that the Happy Fun Ball License must be retained as some
more established licenses state.
I think we have the freedom to do this in this case.
Just my 2 cents,
Brett
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On 21/07/2013, at 3:08 AM, "Frank Warmerdam"
<warmer...@pobox.com<mailto:warmer...@pobox.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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
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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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