[Incubator] Asking permission to copy portion of code in the public domain

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello all

I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list, but no other list come to my 
mind right now...

A few months ago, I started to provide examples of GeoAPI implementations in the 
public domain (http://www.geoapi.org/geoapi-examples). The hope is to encourage 
GeoAPI adoption by allowing any implementors, open source or commercial, to take 
inspiration from this code with no obligation at all, not even obligation to 
acknowledge the borrowing/copying in any way. Many of those examples are derived 
and simplified from Geotoolkit.org code and put in the public domain by 
ourselves, since we wrote that code.

However now I would like to copy some portions of code that I wrote in Geotools 
time, for example AffineTransform2D (not the full class, only portions of it). 
This code is copyrighted Osgeo. Consequently, I would like Osgeo permission to 
copy in the public domain (no copyright holder) small portion of Geotoolkit.org 
code inherited from Geotools 2.6. I would like to stress out the following points:

  * The code that I want to copy was fully writen by myself - they were no
    contributor other than myself as far as I know.
  * The copyright owner of that Geotools 2.6 code is Osgeo, and only Osgeo.
  * The target "relicensing" (not a real license) is public domain.


Do I have Osgeo permission to publish in public domain derivative work of 
AffineTransform2D, GeneralMatrix, GeneralDirectPosition and similar "simple" 
classes writen by myself?

     Regards,

         Martin

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