<div dir="ltr">Hi Even,<div><br></div><div>I talk to Yamate-san who has been working on those three drivers. He explained that each driver has little bit different copy right background he need to resolve before he can merge them to the main.</div><div><br></div><div>The first one,<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">FGD driver, which he wrote for a project and he does not have control on its copy right. So, he would like to leave it at this moment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">For the second one, </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">FG-GML driver, he wrote it and he owns its copy right at this moment. But he said he can release with the licence you suggested.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The last one, </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">FGD ogr driver, which he also wrote and it is highly possible he can release it under the MIT licence. But he need to make sure his client can agree on this. So, he said he will contact to his client.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">So, the last two drivers can be merge into the main GDAL driver. It is little bit confusing background but I am sure we can sort these out.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I will let you know when he is ready to work with you.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thanks!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hiroo</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Hiroo Imaki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hiroo@angeli.org" target="_blank">hiroo@angeli.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Even,<div><br></div><div>I am not the developer but he and I working at a same company. If he can agree on the license and release his efforts, that would be wonderful for all Japanese data uses.</div><div><br></div><div>He hesitates writing his message in English. So, I can be a translator between you guys. I hope no lost in translation!</div><div><br></div><div>I will get back to you once I hear from him.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Hiroo</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
Sorry for writing in English, but I don't unfortunately speak Japanese.<br>
<br>
I'm one of the GDAL developers.<br>
<br>
I've noticed that there are "un-official" versions of GDAL floating around, with<br>
a few drivers for new Japanese-specific formats. I was wondering if there was a<br>
reason to keep them outside of the official GDAL tree ? Integrating them into<br>
mainline GDAL would probably make life of Japanese users easier. GDAL has<br>
already support for a lof of national specific formats, mainly in Europe and<br>
North America. Would be cool for Asia to join in ;-)<br>
<br>
In a recent discussion thread, the following link is mentionned:<br>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4oyhncknavdk2if/gdal110_test.zip" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/4oyhncknavdk2if/gdal110_test.zip</a><br>
<br>
I can see that it contains 2 new GDAL drivers ( FGD: Japanese Fundamental<br>
Geographic Data (.xml) & FG-GML : Japanese Fundamental Geographic Data<br>
GML(.xml) ) and one OGR driver (FGD).<br>
Unfortunatelly there's no author or copyright information in the header of the<br>
corresponding source files. Would their author(s) be willing to release them<br>
under the X/MIT license and contribute them to the mainline GDAL project ?<br>
Perhaps some test files to write minimalistic regressions tests would be<br>
useful.<br>
<br>
Let me know if I can be useful for anything. I can also help for writing new<br>
drivers if needed.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Even<br>
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