> > Um - Hi Andrew - I think we were waiting to hear back from you and your > > team? As I understand you were away Dec / Jan so I did not want to pester > > :-) > > > Jody, > > Yes that's right. In addition to being away in December, my mandate has been > to prioritize the Long Term Support (http://wiki.eclipse.org/LTS) industry > working group (IWG) before Location. It's developing nicely so I'm picking up > on tasks for the Location IWG. I've been quietly recruiting companies and > people who would be interested in Location as well. Thank you for joining the > mailing list. > > For Location, as per the Eclipse bylaws, we need permission to distribute > software that's not EPL. Even if uDig were to re-license under the EPL (or > dual-license EPL/LGPL), Geotools (which is LGPL) and other dependencies would > still require permission. For this reason, we need the Location IWG. The > Polarsys industry working group at Eclipse has set a successful precedent > here. > > Getting companies & interested people to join the Location IWG mailing list > is something everyone can help with. Thank you kindly. > > In terms of next steps and timing... we're aiming for a face to face meeting > in May, likely at the Location Intelligence conference in Washington D.C. > Between then and now, we home to prime the pump for discussion of initiatives > and iterate a draft of the Location IWG charter. > > From a uDig perspective, once the Location IWG is launched, and of course if > we receive Refractions support on this, we can formally begin the proposal to > take it to Eclipse. This feels like it'll happen around June/July timeframe. > How does this work for you all? It sounds great; and since we are new to the eclipse world we will heavily lean on your experience / direction.
Refractions is alive (and have continued to keep the serves operational; however they have not responded to any project specific emails). As such I expect we will need to try phoning; when we have a nice clear plan laid out to discuss? I am likely to proceed with the EPL change request regardless of the status on the location IWG as it will help simplify our story. With that in mind I expect the only plugin to contain an LGPL license will be net.refractions.udig.libs. There are a couple of experiments Frank was working on to allow us to depend on the GeoTools jars directly; but the details got technical for me … and I should not plan with them in mind. Jody
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