Re: [Geotools-devel] Asking permission to relicense 3 classes from LGPL to BSD

[Martin D. <mar...@no...>]

Jody Garnett a =E9crit :
> Can I ask if after all this we can use JScience more smoothly with=20
> geotools? I am quite fond on their Measure and Units constructs. Measur=
e=20
> saves me *tones* of grief right now ...

The clash comes from the fact that Geotools still uses the (dead) JSR-108=
, while JScience uses=20
JSR-275 for units management. We are facing two issues:


   * JSR-275 is not yet approved and is in desperate need for volunteer t=
ime before we get yet
     another (and probably definitive) withdrawn from the JCP management.=
 My vacation time that
     I shared between "JSR-275" and "coverage branch merge" is now finish=
ed, and JSR-275 took a
     lot of that time. This is why my "coverage branch merge" work is so =
deceptive. My JSR-275
     work is somewhat deceptive too since the specification - draft poste=
d there:

https://jsr-275.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=3D5344=
&expandFolder=3D5344&folderID=3D0

     still in way too early stage for being useful. I'm a very slow write=
r, and writing in a
     non-native language doesn't help... If we don't find a volunteer for=
 continuing the work,
     I don't think I will be able to continue it myself before one or two=
 months. As long as
     we don't have a finished specification, the whole javax.units packag=
e is at risk of being
     withdrawn by the JCP, forcing us to change all our dependencies. If =
we switch to JSR-275
     now, we may have to switch again if JSR-275 gets withdrawn. If we wa=
it a little bit, we
     will switch only once no matter what happen: we will switch either t=
o JSR-275 or to
     something else if JSR-275 gets withdrawn.


   * The JScience implementation requires Java 5. I'm all for Java 5, esp=
ecially since we meet the
     criterions for a switch as enumerated in the developer guide (JEE 5 =
is out for a few months,
     many JSE 5 updates have been released, and Java 6 is already in beta=
 2 phase - final release
     scheduled this fall). But last time we asked about a switch to Java =
5, we have meet a very
     strong opposition. Are the conditions for a switch better today?


	Martin.