Ticket #1822 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 7 months ago

PCRaster Licensing Unclear

Reported by: warmerdam Assigned to: kdejong
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.5.0
Component: License Version: unspecified
Severity: normal Keywords: pcraster
Cc: mloskot

Description

Some gdal/frmts/pcraster source files are missing license headers (pcrasterdataset.h, pcrastermisc.cpp, pcrasterrasterband.cpp, pcpcrasterutil.cpp, pcrasterutil.h). It would be desirable to add standard headers (similar to what is in pcrasterdataset.cpp) to these files.

Kor - can you address this or provide explicit permission to apply the GDAL license to the rest of this code?

The libcsf code is ok as it is. I presume the intent is that libcsf/COPYING applies to all libcsf code, right? I have copied this license text into the new gdal/LICENSE.TXT.

Change History

11/28/07 12:44:26 changed by mloskot

  • keywords set to pcraster.
  • cc set to mloskot.

What's the status of this issue? Technically, I'm willing to fix it and update licensing information in these files but the permission request should be addressed first.

(in reply to: ↑ description ) 11/29/07 03:01:52 changed by kdejong

  • status changed from new to assigned.

Replying to warmerdam:

Some gdal/frmts/pcraster source files are missing license headers (pcrasterdataset.h, pcrastermisc.cpp, pcrasterrasterband.cpp, pcpcrasterutil.cpp, pcrasterutil.h). It would be desirable to add standard headers (similar to what is in pcrasterdataset.cpp) to these files. Kor - can you address this or provide explicit permission to apply the GDAL license to the rest of this code? The libcsf code is ok as it is. I presume the intent is that libcsf/COPYING applies to all libcsf code, right? I have copied this license text into the new gdal/LICENSE.TXT.

Sorry for this late reply, I wasn't aware of this ticket.

We would like to have the PCRaster format usable for everyone with the most liberal license. There should be nothing one can do with GDAL, one can not do with the PCRaster/libcsf part. GDAL's MIT style license is fine for the PCRaster driver code too.

Yes, libcsf/COPYING applies too all csf code.

Kor

11/29/07 10:09:15 changed by warmerdam

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Kor,

I have prefixed the pcraster* modules with the GDAL MIT/X license, and add a brief note in libcsf/COPYING indicating it applies to everything in that directory. The changes were committed as r13149. Please skim to confirm it reflects your intentions. If not, reopen this ticket.