Re: [Geotools-devel] IP check PostGIS, WKBEncoder.java

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

In the PostGIS data store for geotools, and yes your name is on the 
@author tag :-)

> Hi Jody,
>
> Sorry I didn't respond sooner. .just got back from vacation.
>
> WKBEncoder.java in PostGIS? In what package? As far as I know, the 
> only java code included in PostGIS is stuff that Markus Schaber wrote 
> in the jdbc2 directory in the cvs checkout ...WKBEncoder.java is not 
> in the list included java files. I did write some stuff that allowed 
> me (and the CWB team at the time) to read and write features from a 
> PostGIS database, dynamically or statically from an arbitrary SQL 
> query statement.... But that code is not in PostGIS, it's in our 
> private SVN repository for CWB. I say kill the (C) tag.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Hi Kevin (long time no chat), and Chris (who wishes for the same 
>> treatment),
>>
>> I am working through and intellectual property check and came across 
>> your name along with a (C) Refractions Research for the file 
>> WKBEncoder being used for
>> PostGIS support.  We do have a mandate from Paul to donate code to 
>> GeoTools, so we are clear there. I would like to confirm that this is 
>> your work, and if it was done off the cuff or as part of some JTS 
>> based project.
>>
>> I have updated the header to include the GeoTools PMC (C) and so on - 
>> as GeoTools is distributing the file. And have left the (C) 2004 
>> Refractions Research message and added your name as the class author.
>>
>> Chris can you grab the feedback from Kevin and update PostGIS 
>> accordingly. My understanding is that JTS1.7 includes WKB support, 
>> based on my initial research this would not be directly suitable as 
>> PostGIS has expanded WKB in the logical manner to make available more 
>> ordinates and the like - armed with Kevin's code I think I could make 
>> a hibernate UserType now, I failed just trying to use JTS earlier.
>>
>> Jody
>>
>>