Re: [technology-pmc] Seeking exempt status JAI and ImageIO dependencies

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

That is distressing, so we are left with "exempt pre-req" and the necessity of asking user to install components which do not have an easy to use installer.

So we are caught between our user experience and continuing with incubation.

We did try and do a preflight check[1] on this matter before joining LocationTech, and it has been discussed[2] several times during incubation.

Jody

[1] http://www.refractions.net:8080/confluence/display/UDIG/Eclipse+Foundation+LocationTech

[2] https://locationtech.org/mhonarc/lists/udig-dev/msg22301.html (sorry the archive contains funny CSS rendering the last half of the page invisible, use select-all to read)

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are no exemptions for anything that we actually ship.

If we ship it, then it needs to go through the full IP Due Diligence process. I don't think exempt status helps here.

From the Guidelines for the Review of Third Party Dependencies [1]:

The key issue we need to address is the one where projects are essentially bypassing the IP due  
diligence process by requiring third party software as a prerequisite where such third party is to be  
downloaded and installed separately by the user, instead of redistributing such software in their projects.  
This is a concern for the Eclipse community because it is our goal to ship projects which contain  
adequately reviewed IP and are, therefore, ready for commercial adoption.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf

Wayne

On 08/21/2013 04:21 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

That is not the intent. We expect to ship these dependencies with the application.

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