[Incubator] Recommend pycsw Graduation

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Angelos,
If this description is included, or referenced from incubation
documentation, that I'd consider that this items is addressed.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Cameron,
>
> The outstanding issues from the pycsw Provenance Review are:
>
> 1. The OSGeoLive pycsw installer script was maintained in pycsw source
> tree before pushing changes to OSGeoLive. Since the license for the
> installer is LGPL, there is a conflict.
> I just removed the installer from the pycsw tree. It is *not* used by
> pycsw. Problem solved.
> https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/302
>
> 2. The OGC schemas are included in pycsw to validate incoming XML
> requests. This discussion started when we pushed pycsw as a package to
> Debian. Debian developers identified the license problem and reported back
> to us. There is a discussion between OSGeo, OGC and  DebianGIS on standards
> mailing list and we hope this will be resolved soon, not only for pycsw but
> also for various other OSGeo projects (both graduated and not) that include
> OGC schemas in their code tree.
> https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues/306
> Thanks Sebastiaan for this excellent e-mail with many details on this
> issue:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2015-February/000842.html
>
> Just to be clear: there is no library conflict in pycsw, the source code
> is clean.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 02/15/2015 09:37 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Hi Angelos,
> I'd suggest that it is ok to have outstanding issues with the provenance
> review, so long as each issue has an acceptable workaround.
> Eg: if there is a conflict with a license of an included library, then the
> work around could be to download the library separately.
> There should also be a statement about what the project plans are around
> the issue. Maybe you are planning to rewrite the library, or maybe you are
> approaching the library authors to get access to the code under another
> license.
>
> Thanks for addressing the other issues.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athenshttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
>


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