[Incubator] IP issues Oracle and ArcSDE

[Arnulf Christl]

Jody Garnett wrote:
> Hi Marc - module maintainer for Oracle
> Gabriel - module maintainer for ArcSDE
> 
> We have an interesting twist with the jars required for your modules to 
> build. The jars are not part of an open source project, and produced by 
> a commercial company.

Hey,
just a minor one but it comes up and up and up and we will need to get 
it out and out and out.

It should not read "produced by a commercial company" but "produced 
under a proprietary license".

Many commercial companies produce perfectly Open and Free software.

One of the interests of the OSGeo is to make .org more attractive to 
.com and to do this professionally it requires us to adhere to this fine 
distinction.

Arnulf

> Gabriel I am not familiar with how we acquired the arcsde jars. Can you 
> confirm for me that we are allowed to depend on these jars, and host 
> them in our maven repository for open source development.
> 
> Marc - I understand that you are a new module maintainer for Oracle and 
> are not familiar with its history. If needed you may check with the 
> previous module maintainers to answer this question.
> 
> For Oracle we have reverse engineered the Oracle API, interfaces only, 
> allowing geotools to compile. If it is possible to secure the rights to 
> the original for build purposes it would be of great assistance.  My 
> understanding is that if GeoTools, or OSGEO was an Oracle Development 
> Partner we would be allowed to do this, I will leave it to you to figure 
> out the details.
> 
> Jody
> 
> 
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