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Re: [udig-devel] More Eclipse related stuff
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Hi Andrew,
> I hope your week is going well. I have a few questions/topics I wanted to
> bring up.
>
> 1) Project name
>
> As per:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Project_Naming_Policy
>
> "As a defensive measure, the Eclipse Foundation holds the trademark to the
> Project names on behalf of the Projects - this prevents companies from
> misusing or misrepresenting their products as being the Projects.) The EMO
> will initiate a trademark review prior to scheduling a Creation Review.
> Existing trademarks must be transferred to the Eclipse Foundation (please
> see the Trademark Transfer Agreement)"
>
> I hope this is OK?
I really hope so. Guess this would involve Refractions. I assume the
PSC would agree with this. I do.
> 2) Third party software
>
> As you expect, our IP team won't have a mandate to engage until the IWG is
> launched and the uDig project proposal submitted. Nevertheless, I wanted to
> take a look to understand a bit about the software distributed in uDig's
> packaging to educate myself better. Here's a quick method I used:
> http://pastebin.com/iBFgFnFb
>
> Aside from Eclipse stuff, I see:
>
> net.refractions.udig.* <= is this all code from the uDig project
yes, most of it is by refraction. I know that a couple of plugins are
from HydroloGIS. Might be some other player involved, but most of the
plugins in that namespace were attributed to Refractions/uDig project.
> eu.udig.* <= Looks like this was contributed by HydroloGIS, correct?
Most of it. In fact this was a change we started to have a vendor-free
namespace. The only one left was udig.eu (which HydroloGIS owns, but
would be willing to donate during the migration, not sure if it would
be necessary though).
Most of the eu.udig plugins are from HydroloGIS, but there are also
contributions from Axios and CampToCamp I think.
> Apache: Ant, Batik, Lucene, Xerces, XML resolver & serializer, commons,
> jasper - all under Apache license v2
> w3c: org.w3c.css.sac and org.w3c.dom events, smil, and svg (W3C software
> license)
> javax: servlet, xml, and servlet.jsp (Apache license v2)
> org.mortbay: jetty server and util (Apache license v2)
> org.tcat.citd.sim.udig: bookmarks
> com.ibm: icu (ICU4J license)
> com.lowagie: itext (Looks like MPL?)
right now it is GPL3. I think we sticked to an older version, when the
license was still LGPL?
> com.mapquest: mq (anyone know what license this is?)
Good question, I do not know where that comes from. It was part of a
Google SOC. Jesse, you were mentoring the guy, do you have an idea
where that comes from?
> net.refractions.udig.catalog.geotools <= looks like geotools itself is not
> actually distributed with udig but instead assumed to be installed on the
> box, is this correct? Same with gdal?
Not exactly. The plugin you mention is a support plugin for geotools
supported filetypes (I think... Jody?).
The whole of geotools is inside the net.refractions.libs plugin. It is
not kept in the repo, but downloaded in the development environment
through a maven task. The whole thing is then exported together with
the uDig product.
> Thanks in advance for confirming these important details.
>
> 3) Contribution agreements
>
> Has uDig used any sort of contribution agreements?
Not that I know of. Changes to existing plugins were always attributed
to the original autor. Most of it Refraction, then we have plugins by
HydroloGIS, CampToCamp, Axios.
Best regards,
Andrea
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andrew
>
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