[Incubator] New application: rasdaman

[Peter Baumann]

Paul-

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> I think unless the open source users are granted an unrestricted,
> world-wide, royalty-free license to use the patent, there might be
> some concern that only your good graces allow them rights to the code.
> GPLv3 does a patent grant, GPLv2 does not. Were you planning on using
> GPLv3? 
it is GPLv3 indeed, see
http://maitai.eecs.jacobs-university.de:8000/trac/rasdaman/browser/LICENSE
> If so, that should be specified in the application, it's
> important.
>   
done, thanks for the hint (admittedly I never have looked into GPLv2).

-Peter
> P.
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Peter Baumann
> <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>   
>> Greetings listers,
>>
>> great to be on board. Here a resend of my answer to Daniel's question.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>  Daniel-
>>
>> that means: no restriction on the OS package other than the GPL imposed.
>> To document this, with my records is the rasdaman submitter statement for
>> this code.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>
>> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>
>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have received a new incubation application from Peter Baumann
>> for the postgres based rasdaman raster data manager.
>>
>>   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/370
>>
>>
>>
>> "Peter Baumann holds patents on the rasdaman architecture."
>>
>> What does this mean for users of the open source version of the package?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Peter Baumann
>>  - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
>>    www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
>>    mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
>>    tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
>>  - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
>>    www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
>>    tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
>> "A brilliant idea is a job halfdone."
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Peter Baumann
>>  - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
>>    www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
>>    mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
>>    tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
>>  - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
>>    www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
>>    tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
>> "A brilliant idea is a job halfdone."
>>
>>
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-- 
Dr. Peter Baumann
 - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
   www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
   mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
   tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
 - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
   www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
   tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
"A brilliant idea is a job halfdone."