[Geotools-devel] Copyright issue with SoftHashMap

[Martin D. <mar...@ge...>]

Hello Simone

SoftHashMap (recently added) seems to be adapted from the following page:

http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/archive/newsletter.do?issue=015&locale=en_US

It contains the following copyright:

     (C)opyright Maximum Solutions, South Africa
     Reprint Rights. Copyright subsists in all the material included in this email, but you may
     freely share the entire email with anyone you feel may be interested, and you may reprint
     excerpts both online and offline provided that you acknowledge the source as follows: This
     material from The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter by Maximum Solutions (South Africa).
     Please contact Maximum Solutions for more information.

At the bottom of the above-cited web page, there is a "Please contact us if you would like to 
reproduce this material." where "contact us" is an hyperlink. Would it be possible to contact them 
in order to know if we are allowed to distribute derivative work under LGPL license in Geotools 
please? If we can't, we have other alternatives (duplicate WeakValueHashMap, using Apache libraries, 
rewrite from scratch, etc.).

	Martin.