[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Acknowledgement of Contributor Guidelines

[Gary Sherman]

+1

-Gary
GeoApt LLC
Chair, Quantum GIS PSC

On Dec 6, 2010, at 6:30, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> 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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>> 
>> 
> 
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