Well open source is supposed to be fun!
--
Jody Garnett
On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 9:45 AM, Brett Walker wrote:
> I just cannot stop thinking that someone is having a laugh at our expense.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Fun_Ball
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzDC-2ZO8I
>
> Brett
>
> From: Brett Walker
> Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 12:10 PM
> To: Jody Garnett
> Cc: GeoTools Dev
> Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] happy fun ball
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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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