[Live-demo] GeoKettle source code

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Daniel,

I followed the link from the GeoKettle Homepage to the trac instance with the 
source code of 2.6:
http://trac.spatialytics.com/geokettle/browser/trunk
The last changes seem to be 2 years old:
http://trac.spatialytics.com/geokettle/timeline?from=08%2F13%2F14

Regards
Pirmin

Am Dienstag, 22. November 2016, 12.54:25 schrieb Daniel Araujo Miranda:
> Hello everyone,    I am now under the strong impression that the GeoKettle
> package in OSGeo-Live violates the GPL in the sense that the source code is
> unavailable. I emailed Thierry Badard about the GeoKettle source code and
> got no answer. Martin Seterstoen got in touch with me directly and asked me
> if I had found the source code already because he also could not find it.
> That person did find the source for an earlier version of GeoKettle.
> 
>     I dug further inside the actual OSGeo-Live distribution and found
> version 2.6 in /usr/local/share/gisvm/bim/install_geokettle.sh at the
> following url:
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/geokettle/geokettle-2.6-r192-with_pl
> ugins.zip The GEOKETTLE_README.txt package inside OSGeo-Live however,
> mentions only version 2.5.OSGeo-Live's website also lists this package as
> being version 2.6 of GeoKettle
> https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geokettle_overview.html
> 
> To sum up:    I can't find the source. I have officially given up looking
> for it and am now actively poking people to see if it comes out :-)
> 
> I would like to ask:0. Please point me to the source if it is available and
> I have fumbled my google-fu, my find-fu and my grep-fu. 1. Is this list the
> right place for inquiries about OSGeo-Live packages that might violate the
> GPL? (in the sense that the source code is unavailable) 2. If so, please
> take steps to either remove that package from OSGeo-Live or publish the
> source code somehow. That might be a topic for discussion in the next
> OSGeo-Live meeting.
> 
> Best,Daniel Araujo Miranda
> Forensics ExpertBrazilian Federal Police
> 
> 
>     Em Quarta-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2016 18:31, Daniel Araujo Miranda
> <daniel_a_miranda at yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> 
> 
> 
>  Hello,I apologize in advance if I have missed something obvious, but where
> is the source code for GeoKettle? I just picked up geokettle seriously for
> the first time as a candidate for doing some heavy lifting here at work.
> After realizing that it has not been updated in three years, I tried to
> fetch the source code to take a look. Searching said source code already
> took more than an hour now. The trac and the forum are offline, the
> documentation link in the project's homepage is broken and SourceForge only
> has the packaged application. It is an amazing project and a worthy part of
> OSGeo-Live, I'd hate to see it abandoned.
> 
> Best,Daniel

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