[Incubator] istSOS - code provenance review

[Jody Garnett]

Please note Massimiliano you will need to pass my message on to the istsos
email list since I am not a member. This is the downside to cross posting
questions :)

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Jody Garnett

On 25 June 2015 at 13:31, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have some question/doubts you could help:
>>
>> 1) we have a Web interface developed in javascript. How do we have to
>> apply copyrights to these files? We don't want to make them larger adding
>> comments... How is the common practice?
>>
>
> One approach (not sure how good it is) is to put a LICENSE.txt file in the
> root of your repository (this is considered polite for github projects).
> Your header in your javascript files can then be much smaller with just a
> (c) and a reference to the license file.
>
> Compare:
> - https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/lib/OpenLayers.js
>
> To how it is used in GeoServer:
> -
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/wms/src/main/resources/openlayers3/ol.js
> -
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/wms/src/main/resources/openlayers3/readme.txt
> -
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/wms/src/main/resources/openlayers3/ol.css
>
>
>
>> OpenLayers3 does not seems to have any indication on files [1], just on
>> the base folder a license file [2]
>>
>> 2) we have embedded some libraries in the /lib folder. I have listed
>> original license of the packages, is there any conflict? Moreover, how to
>> properly point the license of these external libs?
>>
>
> For GeoServer We are distributing the minified version, with a readme on
> the side. But even the minified version both to include a header.
>
> // OpenLayers 3. See http://ol3.js.org/
> // License:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openlayers/ol3/master/LICENSE.md
> // Version: v3.0.0
>
>
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