From: Jody G. <jga...@re...> - 2006-03-27 08:54:17
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Okay cool - thanks Gabriel. So we got two answers: - ESRI - a jar downloaded without a licensing restriction - we should try and find someone to talk to I guess? - Oracle - a problem, we need to either ask nice or pay $2k to be a partner Marc I understand that you would like to use the sdoapi.jar a bit more (and thus have less code in geotools) - a move I support. We do need to ensure we can get the access thing sorted out first - and Chris will write a letter on our behalf. The situation is complicated by the fact that GeoServer and GeoTools are already listed on the oracle partner website (and I have no idea how they got there). Chris are you writing this for osgeo? Or just for GeoTools? > On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:02, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> Hi Marc - module maintainer for Oracle >> Gabriel - module maintainer for ArcSDE >> >> We have an interesting twist with the jars required for your modules to >> build. The jars are not part of an open source project, and produced by >> a commercial company. >> >> Gabriel I am not familiar with how we acquired the arcsde jars. Can you >> confirm for me that we are allowed to depend on these jars, and host >> them in our maven repository for open source development. >> > > The jars are freely downloadable from the following URL, which I added in the > arcsde plugin's project.xml dependencies: > http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=19&MetaID=1065#install-cUNIX > > I saw no license agreement nor you have to be registered to download it, so I > thought it would be ok. When I first introduced the geotools arcsde plugin > back in 2003 I asked Chris Holmes about this same fear, and since we didn't > found any access restriction I guessed it would be ok. > I'm far to be a licensing expert though, so be sure I'll have no problem in > producing a fake jar with the needed classes so the plugin could compile > without depending on the actual ESRI jars if needed. > > Gabriel. > > >> Marc - I understand that you are a new module maintainer for Oracle and >> are not familiar with its history. If needed you may check with the >> previous module maintainers to answer this question. >> >> For Oracle we have reverse engineered the Oracle API, interfaces only, >> allowing geotools to compile. If it is possible to secure the rights to >> the original for build purposes it would be of great assistance. My >> understanding is that if GeoTools, or OSGEO was an Oracle Development >> Partner we would be allowed to do this, I will leave it to you to figure >> out the details. >> >> Jody >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >> that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live >> webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding >> territory! >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Geotools-devel mailing list >> Geo...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel >> > > |