[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation

[Jody Garnett]

We are running into the end of our 10 business days - if you have not
already done so please take this opportunity to review Bruce's
recommendation, and the documentation provided by the Rasdaman community.

Jody Garnett

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the nomination Bruce.
>
> As this list sees such low traffic/participation we have struggled to
> reach quorum. I would like to keep this motion open for two weeks (10
> business days) to allow members to review and vote.
> --
> Jody
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Project:                    Rasdaman
>>
>> Project Contact:       Peter Baumann
>>
>> Project Mentor:        Bruce Bannerman
>>
>>
>> Recommendation:   Rasdaman to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation
>>
>>
>> Incubation Checklist:  http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Comments:
>>
>> I have been monitoring and participating in the Rasdaman Community
>> developer and user email lists for over four years. I plan to continue to
>> participate within the community.
>>
>> It has been pleasing to see how the community has evolved over this time
>> to develop effective, open and robust processes.
>>
>> I recommend to other FOSS4G communities to review what has been done, as
>> you may well find that Rasdaman offers a compelling solution for the
>> management of multi-dimensional array or gridded data that your project may
>> be able to capitalise on.
>>
>> A summary of community activity may be found at:
>> https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman
>>
>> Key project members are active within both OSGeo and the OGC.
>>
>> Within the OGC they have successfully guided a range of standards to
>> support mutltidimensional array (gridded) data which have culminated
>> (currently) in Web Coverage Service version 2.0 and a suite of extensions,
>> see: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
>>
>> The project's principal, Professor Peter Baumann was also recently
>> awarded OGC's prestigious Kenneth D Gardels award for his contributions to
>> OGC.
>>
>>
>>
>> After having participated within the community for four years and having
>> reviewed their OSGeo Project Graduation Checklist, I believe that Rasdaman
>> Community have fulfilled the requirements of OSGeo Incubation and are
>> eligible to graduate as an OSGeo Project.
>>
>>
>> The only reservation that I have is over the dual licensing model that is
>> used by the sponsoring company, Rasdaman GmbH. See:
>> http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php
>>
>>
>>
>> There are two versions: Community (GPL and LGPL) and Enterprise (free
>> from GPL constraints).
>>
>> The main difference between the two versions is summarised at:
>> http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features
>>
>>
>>
>> This dual licensing may create a problem for the Rasdaman Community in
>> the future should Rasdaman GmbH decide to sell its stake in the Rasdaman
>> Enterprise version of the software. We have already seen a similar
>> situation arise after the sale of MySQL which was similarly licensed.
>>
>> However as the community edition of the software is released under open
>> source licenses, I expect that the main impact would be to the continuity
>> of the Rasdaman Community in its current form. In the event of a sale, we
>> may see the software forked, as happened with MySQL.
>>
>> For consideration and vote.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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