[Qgis-psc] Re: Acknowledgement of Contributor Guidelines

[Marco Hugentobler]

+1

Marco

Am Montag, 6. Dezember 2010, um 16.30:01 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi All
> 
> Any objections to me going on to give Dave write access to SVN? PSC I
> think you need to vote on this.
> 
> +1 from me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
> > In accordance with requirement #6 of the Contributor Guidelines
> > (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Contributor_Guidelines), I am sending this
> > email to indicate my agreement to abide by those guidelines.
> > 
> > --Dave DeHaan
> > 
> > ----
> > David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
> > SQL Anywhere Research and Development
> > Query Processing team
> > Sybase iAnywhere
> > www.sybase.com/ianywhere
> > Free Developer Edition: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1016644
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  From:       Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
> > 
> >  To:         <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com>
> > 
> >  Cc:         QGIS Project Steering Committee <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> > 
> >  Date:       11/30/2010 01:56 PM
> > 
> >  Subject:    Re: [Qgis-psc] Contributing an SQL Anywhere plugin/provider
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Dave
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM,  <Dave.DeHaan at sybase.com> wrote:
> >> Hello Project Steering Committee,
> >> 
> >> I work for Sybase, performing R&D for our SQL Anywhere (SA) product.  SA
> > 
> > is
> > 
> >> a cross-platform feature-rich relational DBMS, whose market niches are
> >> small- to medium-sized businesses, embedded applications, and mobile
> >> environments.  Our most recent version (SA12) added comprehensive
> >> spatial support, modelled after the SQL/MM and OGC standards.  We ship
> >> a spatial viewer with our product as part of the administrative tools,
> >> but it is exactly that---a viewer intended for developers or
> >> administrators, not an end-user GIS application.  Many of our customers
> >> are new to spatial data and are starting to consider how it might
> >> benefit their business.  For those customers interested in trying out a
> >> feature-rich GIS application,
> > 
> > we
> > 
> >> would like to be able to recommend the Quantum GIS project.  From our
> >> perspective, enabling QGIS to work with SQL Anywhere could be a benefit
> >> both to Sybase customers and to the QGIS project.
> >> 
> >> To that end, I have written a C++ plugin/data-provider combination that
> >> interfaces QGIS (works with v1.5 and 1.6) with an SA12 (or later)
> > 
> > backend.
> > 
> >> All that is needed to compile them is a few SA-specific header files,
> > 
> > which
> > 
> >> we have released under the Apache v2.0 licence.  To establish a
> > 
> > connection
> > 
> >> to an SA server requires that the client machine has the (proprietary)
> > 
> > SQL
> > 
> >> Anywhere client libraries installed; otherwise a message to that effect
> > 
> > is
> > 
> >> displayed, along with a link to download the free Developer's edition of
> >> SA.
> >> 
> >> The plugin/provider code will be released under GPLv3.  Although we
> >> could distribute it ourselves, we would prefer to contribute it back to
> >> the
> > 
> > QGIS
> > 
> >> project so that the SA compatibility is packaged and distributed as part
> > 
> > of
> > 
> >> the main QGIS application.  For convenience, we would also contribute
> >> the SA-specific headers to the repository (three files subject to the
> >> Apache license, not GPL).  I would be willing to join the project as
> >> maintainer
> > 
> > of
> > 
> >> this code.
> >> 
> >> I look forward to hearing your thoughts on accepting this contribution.
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> David DeHaan
> >> 
> >> PS - In the interest of full discloser, over the weekend I had a brief
> >> email discussion with Tim, Marco, and Gary about licensing details.
> >>  They suggested this posting to the PSC once our lawyers signed off on
> >> the GPL release, which has now happened.
> > 
> > As per our email discussion, I support the addition of this provider
> > and propose Dave be given SVN access so that he can directly
> > contribute and maintain his work. Its really cool to have such
> > additions make their way into the QGIS code base!
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > It would be nice if possible for us (interested QGIS developers I
> > guess) to test the SQL Anywhere provider. Is there some way we can get
> > licenses of SQL Anywhere for personal use or is there otherwise some
> > kind of trial version that we can use for this purpose?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> >> ----
> >> David E. DeHaan, Ph.D.
> >> SQL Anywhere Research and Development
> >> Query Processing team
> >> Sybase iAnywhere
> >> www.sybase.com/ianywhere
> >> 
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> > 
> > --
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
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