Can the copyright really be 2003 for OSGEO when it didn't exist (with that name) until 2006?
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, 2 December 2016 10:47 > To: GeoTools Developers <geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>; James > Macgill <jmacg...@gmail.com> > Cc: Martin Davis <mtncl...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] jts use of Shapefile Reader > > Thanks everyone, here is a draft letter: > > https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/JTS-Shapefile-Contribution > > > I had to go and create a BSD license for us to refer to. > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 8 November 2016 at 10:49, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com > <mailto:jody.garn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Got a request from working with Martin on the next JTS release: > > As part of relicensing JTS we are hunting down where external > contributions came from, one such is "ShapefileReader" from an early > GeoTools > 2 release (before the switch to the file io api). > > Can I ask for PSC approval to send an email/letter to Martin giving him > permission to relicense this implementation > <https://github.com/locationtech/jts/tree/master/modules/app/src/main/java/ > org/locationtech/jtstest/testbuilder/io/shapefile> . This is similar to how > we > have donated code to GeoAPI in the past (or how we accept code from the > GeoServer PSC). > > The author in question, James Macgill, has signed a code contribution > license so we (as a PSC) are in position donate this code to the JTS > project. I > have also emailed James Macgill so he knows what we are up to :) > -- > Jody Garnett > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
