Re: [netcdf-java] NetCDF jars=>Maven Central Repos?


On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:

Hi Dennis,

We recently changed the opendap license to the one you
currently see because James felt uncomfortable using the
Apache license.

I was wondering what made James feel uncomfortable about using the ASLv2 license?

Nothing. Mathworks needs BSD on code they redistribute and changing/ adding licenses takes time. I know that ASLv2 and BSD are compatible in a way that will let our code work with it, so I'm solving several problems at once (with a single change). If I felt that we had code that would benefit from inclusion in the Apache OS framework, I would have chosen that - and we might, but I don;t have time to sort out these things right now.

So my decision is no slight to Apache - I think the Apache Foundation is doing some really great things.

James


Is there something about that license
that makes it unsuitable for your use?

Not sure, but trying to figure out why the ASLv2 isn't being considered? In my experience it's quite flexible in terms of redistribution, commercialization, and attribution issues in FOSS software, which are all important things to consider as a downstream user of FOSS.

Cheers,
Chris

Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
Hi James,

Are you able to provide an OPeNDAP java release under the Apache Software License, v2 [1]? That would *really* make OPeNDAP useable in a number of Apache projects that I'd love to use the API in (incl. Tika directly).

Currently it looks like it's some BSD-style license [1].

Cheers,
Chris

[1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
[2] http://scm.opendap.org:8090/svn/trunk/Java-OPeNDAP/COPYRIGHT

On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Gallagher James wrote:

On Dec 7, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:

Hello all

I have been silent for a long time, busy on other tasks. But now I would like to work on this Maven Central task (it is a blocker issue for Geotoolkit.org release).

Since we can not fix the 4.2 deployment, I suggest to create a new release: 4.2.1. This release would contains only two artifacts in the edu.ucar group.

        • unidatacommon,  which has no dependency.
        • netcdf, which depends on the following:
                • unidatacommon
                • slf4j-api
• slf4j-jdk14 (by default, user may exclude this dependency and choose an other one).

I think that the following dependencies are optional, most of them required only if we use OpenDap. Can someone confirm please?

                • bufrTables
                • opendap
                • jdom
                • commons-httpclient
                • commons-codec
                • commons-logging
                • ehcache

Given that we have not yet sorted out the OpenDap licensing issue, I suggest to leave OpenDap and its dependencies out for now, and maybe add them in a 4.2.2 release. Does anyone agree with this plan?
A while ago I asked Dennis to change the license on the opendap software specifically so that it could be included. If there's another issue, or if time is tight, I certainly understand. However, if licensing is the only reason, that problem has been resolved AFAIK.

James

There is a proposal for the unidatacommon pom.xml file: 
http://hg.geotoolkit.org/netcdf-deploy/file/tip/unidatacommon.xml
I will update the netcdf pom.xml proposal after we get confirmation of the minimal set of dependencies.

Regards,

  Martin

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jgallagher at opendap.org
406.723.8663



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Email: chris.a.mattmann@xxxxxxxx
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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.a.mattmann@xxxxxxxx
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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James Gallagher
jgallagher at opendap.org
406.723.8663






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