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

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Martin: 

For GeoTools code we supply all example code as public domain (so that people more easily make use of the library). So your license request is already inline with project policy - here is an idea of how to make it happen...

If you send me a list of the files; or sections of files I will include them as examples. We already have an article on what AffineTransform does[1]; so using a few sections as examples of how it does the work would be helpful for both of us.

Cheers,
-- 
Jody Garnett
[1] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/advanced/affinetransform.html


On Tuesday, 3 January 2012 at 5:39 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:

> 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 (http://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 (http://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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