[postgis-devel] Xing Lin's SoC project (raster support)

[Paul Ramsey]

For example, this gives me the willies:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=C-1-AAAAEBAJ&dq=georaster

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, if one is going to do a georaster model, copying 
> Oracle's seems like a pretty safe bet at a technical level, but I have 
> no idea what the intellectual property issues are around it, do you? 
> This is not like SFSQL, which came out of a non-patent-encumbered OGC 
> spec, or the topology work, which follows the draft ISO model.
> 
> I would feel safer if we were tied back to a standards body document 
> rather than the Oracle documentation as our source of model truth. 
> Question is, does any such thing exist?
> 
> P.
> 
> Tim Keitt wrote:
>> On 7/11/07, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
>>> I'm a little worried at the quantity of this document that is copied
>>> verbatim from the Oracle Georaster documentation.  I mean, are we just
>>> cribbing their whole design directly?  The Oracle model is pretty, but
>>> it breaks up the rasters into an internal relational model, which pretty
>>> much requires some sort of toolset for people to load/unload data.
>>
>> Clearly someone at Oracle liked it -- but I'm not married to any
>> particular approach. If you have something constructive to add, this
>> could be seen as an opportunity to do so.
> 
>>
> 
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