[Incubator] OSSIM Incubation Status - License

[Mark Lucas]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Richard Gould wrote:
>> If I recall correctly, the only possible issue that was brought up
>> when OSSIM was recommended for graduation was some confusion of  
>> source
>> code headers. I recall there was some intention to resolve this,  
>> but I
>> have not been keeping up with mentor duties nor following the  
>> project,
>> so I do not know whether this was resolved or not. Unfortunately at
>> this moment I do not have the time to look into or assist in this
>> matter. Perhaps somebody else would be kind enough to volunteer?
>> The email I refer to is here:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2008-March/000915.html
>> There were some follow ups, but it seems that they were not captured
>> in the archives.
>
> Mark,
>
> I have the same question.  A single examination of  
> ossimPlanetQtMainWindow
> indicates there is still no in-file license header in trunk.  It is  
> possible
> some of my questions were responded to at the time, but  
> unfortunately I can't
> find any record of it.  Perhaps I'm missing it.

LICENSE.TXT and LGPL.TXT are are placed at the top of all of the key  
subdirectories in the OSSIM library.  We also addressed the questions  
that were previously raised about shapelib, matrix, kbool, and  
Geotrans by the header in the OSSIM directory shown below.

We have elected not to place this information in every file.  Many of  
the files are generated by other tools and we believe it is an  
unnecessary to convey the license and our intent.  OSSIM is a fairly  
large baseline.  A file count shows over 25,000 files.

We elected to place the following at the top level in the OSSIM  
directory:

The OSSIM tree embeds some code from other libraries as well new  
code.  We will describe the license terms of the embedded modules as  
well as the license of the ossim core engine.  All code derived or  
embedded in the ossim core engine should not restrict the use of  
commercial purposes.

1.  OSSIM engine abides by the LGPL license terms.  We grant you the  
use of the OSSIM core engine in commercial or non commercial use  
without royalty as long as the credits for the original authors stay  
within the source code.  See the top level LGPL.txt found found here  
along side the LICENSE.txt.

2.  shapelib.  The shape library was written by Frank Warmerdam and  
has an MIT Style license these files include:
        dbfopen.c shpopen.c shptree.c
and are located in src/ossim/vec directory.  They have the following  
copyright
******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 1999, Frank Warmerdam
  *
  * This software is available under the following "MIT Style" license,
  * or at the option of the licensee under the LGPL (see  
LICENSE.LGPL).  This
  * option is discussed in more detail in shapelib.html.
  *
  * --
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person  
obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the  
"Software"),
  * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without  
limitation
  * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,  
sublicense,
  * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom  
the
  * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  *
  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be  
included
  * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  *
  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,  
EXPRESS
  * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF  
MERCHANTABILITY,
  * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT  
SHALL
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OR OTHER
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ARISING
  * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
  * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.



3. The matrix library was written by Robert Davies.  At the time of  
download the site was located at http://www.robertnz.net. He gives  
free use in commercial and non commercial as long as his code remains  
in tact and the credits for the author are known.

4. The kbool library does polygon boolean operation and is used by the  
ossimPolyArea2d class.  The license terms are based on the wxwidgets  
licensing which gives free use in commercial and non-commercial  
libraries.  At the time of download the module used could be found at: http://boolean.klaasholwerda.nl/download/download.html

5. Geotrans.  The geotrans library is a set of map projections that  
are certified and hosted by NGA.  They give free use in commercial and  
non commercial software packages and at the time of download the  
geotrans modules could be found at http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/ 
.  We have embedded the datum, ellipsoid, and map projections into the  
ossim baseline and wrapped in C++ classes so to remove the global  
variable access common in the raw getorans c library.




> Best regards,
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> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
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> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for  
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