[Geotools-devel] Re: [geotools-d] JTS 0.9 released

[Cameron S. <ca...@so...>]

Yes, Good points Liu.

Martin (JTS),
Have you worked out which flavour of open source licence you are
planning to use.  You may want to release under a few of them.

Geotools uses LGPL, which means that there would be a licencing issue if
JTS were released under GPL as a GPL licence is stronger than the LGPL
and states that commercial software cannot use the code.

--
With regards to using java 1.2, we might be able to get around the
problem by importing the collections.jar as is done in geotools. 
However this is something to be tested, and we may need to ask the JTS
folks to modify some of their source code.

Liu Zehua wrote:
> 
> Hihi,
> 
> didn't take a deep look. but I just saw something indicates that it requires
> java 1.2. will that be an issue for us? since we are supporting both 1.1 and
> 1.2...
> 
> I am also not sure about the license. can geotools make use of this package?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Liu Zehua
> Project Officer
> Centre for Advanced Information Systems
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cameron Shorter" <ca...@so...>
> To: "Hisaji ONO" <on...@fa...>
> Cc: <geo...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 3:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [geotools-d] JTS 0.9 released
> 
> > For those that have not found JTS, it is at:
> > http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm
> > Looks promising, I've talked with James about this in the past, and
> > expect we will eventually move over to using it.  Probably in geotools2.
> >
> > > Hisaji ONO wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > >  JTS(Java Topology Suite) has been released. GeoTools seemes to use
> > > this Java package.
> > >
> > >  Anyone in GeoTools' dev. people has tried this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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