[postgis-devel] wait till monday for final ?

[Mark Johnson]

2015-10-08 13:41 GMT+02:00 Markus Wanner <markus at bluegap.ch>:

> Hi,
>
> On 10/08/2015 01:05 PM, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > Not only very unpopular with other projects, but also with the sponsor
> who
> > financed its development with the intention that it be made available to
> > the project that they themselves use.
>
> It might not be all that negative. Perhaps those other projects get
> together and manage to maintain a liblwgeom fork as a separate and
> independent project. That might set energy free...
>
> > The sponsor will not be pleased about that.
>
> I'm not familiar with the deal behind, so take this with a grain of
> salt: Sponsoring an initial "librarization" and then leaving the burden
> of its maintenance to the PostGIS project forever doesn't sound like a
> good plan to me.
>
> Now, please understand me correctly: I'd also favor a common liblwgeom,
> maintained in a joint effort. However, that clearly needs to pay off for
> the PostGIS project as well - and do so in the long run.
>
Well, since the initial and second financing by Tuscany Region it has
already 'paid off' for PostGIS.
Their assumption, for both the financing, were that the result will be
usable for their other projects
- for the first version that was not at all possible, all of PostGRES would
had had to be included in a android project
-- not very practical
Thus the second financing to make it usable
- the present version works without problems on Android

And now you are demanding they finance a third time to get what they
originally wanted?

The likelihood of such organisations contributing in this way in the future
will become very slim if they are treated in such a way.

The offer should not have been accepted if there was a lack or willingness
to maintain the gift that was given to you.


> Regards
>
> Markus Wanner
>
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