<div dir="ltr"><div><br>Project: Rasdaman <br><br></div>Project Contact: Peter Baumann<br><br>Project Mentor: Bruce Bannerman<br><br><br>Recommendation: Rasdaman to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation<br><br><br><div>Incubation Checklist: <a href="http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist" target="_blank">http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br></div><div><br><br></div>Comments:<br><br>I
have been monitoring and participating in the Rasdaman Community
developer and user email lists for over four years. I plan to continue
to participate within the community.<br><br>It has been pleasing to see how the community has evolved over this time to develop effective, open and robust processes. <br><br>I
recommend to other FOSS4G communities to review what has been done, as
you may well find that Rasdaman offers a compelling solution for the
management of multi-dimensional array or gridded data that your project
may be able to capitalise on.<br><br><div>A summary of community activity may be found at: <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman" target="_blank">https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman</a> <br></div><div><br></div>Key project members are active within both OSGeo and the OGC.<br><br>Within
the OGC they have successfully guided a range of standards to support
mutltidimensional array (gridded) data which have culminated (currently)
in Web Coverage Service version 2.0 and a suite of extensions, see: <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs</a><br><br>The
project's principal, Professor Peter Baumann was also recently awarded
OGC's prestigious Kenneth D Gardels award for his contributions to OGC.<br><br><br><br><div>After
having participated within the community for four years and having
reviewed their OSGeo Project Graduation Checklist, I believe that
Rasdaman Community have fulfilled the requirements of OSGeo Incubation
and are eligible to graduate as an OSGeo Project.<br></div><div><br><br></div>The only reservation that I have is over the dual licensing model that is used by the sponsoring company, Rasdaman GmbH. See: <a href="http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br><br>There are two versions: Community (GPL and LGPL) and Enterprise (free from GPL constraints).<br><br>The main difference between the two versions is summarised at: <a href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br><br>This
dual licensing may create a problem for the Rasdaman Community in the
future should Rasdaman GmbH decide to sell its stake in the Rasdaman
Enterprise version of the software. We have already seen a similar
situation arise after the sale of MySQL which was similarly licensed. <br><br>However
as the community edition of the software is released under open source
licenses, I expect that the main impact would be to the continuity of
the Rasdaman Community in its current form. In the event of a sale, we
may see the software forked, as happened with MySQL.<br><div><br></div><div>For consideration and vote.<div class=""><div id=":t3" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div>Bruce<br></div></font></span></div>