[Live-demo] JAI - was packaging Java based OSGeo applications

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/17/2013 09:35 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All -
>>
>>    I am not in the Java world, but this license issue raised by Johan
>> sounds potentially serious..
>>
>> I am a geoserver user.. it is my understanding that JAI us explicitly
>> optional in Geoserver.
>> I dont know the details of the other Java apps, but the Geoserver case,
>> and the license
>> cited, causes me to question the statement that all Java geo apps depend
>> on JAI.
>>
>
> It depends on what JAI you refer to. If it's the pure java version, it's
> mandatory and every application
> built on top of GeoTools needs it. The dependency is pervasive, no raster
> processing of any kind
> is possible without it (e.g., not even scaling images) unless we embark on
> a massive rewrite.
> This means also uDig and potentially GeoMajas and 52N would be affected.
> Deegree is not based on GeoTools, but i believe it's using JAI as well.
>
> If it's the native library accelerators for JAI we're talking about
> instead, those are indeed optional
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>

Look like were talking about 
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/precise/jai-core

Pull the orig to see the odd JRL vs JDL licenses.

imageio appears to have a safe to use license.

Thanks,
Alex