Hi all,
Firstly, I think that we should ask upstream to produce source tarballs
that doesn't have any external stuff included within it. At the moment
it seems to be a mixture of stuff with compiled files and crap in there
too.
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:32 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> This seems to be here: http://maptools.org/rosa/index.phtml
> I didn't look at the source for this yet.
class/com/sixlegs/image/png/ and class/netscape/javascript/ contain
binary class files that are probably not created from the rosa source
code.
sixlegs stuff seems to be GPLed: http://sixlegs.com/software/png/
We should ask the debian-java folks if netscape.javascript.JSObject and
netscape.javascript.JSException are available in free JVMs.
> The data dir seems like it contains stuff that may not be copyrighted by
> the maplab folks:
These files contain the following sentence. Looks like the MapLab folks
are distributing these files without a licence to do so.
data/http___ceoware2_ccrs_nrcan_gc_ca_cubewerx_cubeserv_cubeserv_cgi_.xml
data/http___wms_cits_nrcan_gc_ca_cgi_bin_cubeserv_cgi_.xml
data/a2abstract.txt
data/a3abstract.txt
"GeoGratis distributes a wide variety of geospatial data, data based on
location, for geographic areas across Canada. The data is available free
of charge, subject to copyright restrictions and disclaimer."
> tutorial/etc/ and htdocs/mapbrowser/template/etc contain some fonts that
> say "Copyright 1992 by Elfring Soft Fonts, All rights reserved." in
> their copyright information. We should ask maplab folks to remove these
> from the .tar.gz since they don't seem to be distributable.
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151
> The rest are php, html, txt, gif, jpeg, png, css, javascript and other
> text-based files that look to be gis-related. I have not checked
> anything not mentioned above.
From a quick grep and look at the files, I found the following
issues/interesting bits:
The following files say "Copyright DM Solutions Group Inc 2002 All
Rights Reserved". Probably more mistakes. Something to clarify with
upstream.
htdocs/mapedit/mapeditapp.php
htdocs/common/picker/symbol_picker.php
htdocs/common/picker/layer_picker.php
htdocs/common/picker/font_picker.php
htdocs/common/picker/shape_file_attr.php
htdocs/common/treemenu/treemenu.php was public domain until it was
modified by the MapLab people.
htdocs/common/color_picker/colorpicker.java has a copyright (different
from the one in INSTALL-LINUX.txt), but no license. I presume that the
main licence covers this as well???
htdocs/common/wmsparse/{shapefil.h,dbfopen.c} give the option of either
LGPL, or the same MIT-style licence used throughout maplab.
htdocs/common/colorpicker/{colorpicker.html,colorpicker.css,init.js,behavior.js} have the following copyright notice. I'm not sure what this this means, perhaps this is something to clarify with upstream.
(c) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation
Written by Michael Bostock (mikebos@netscape.com)
Modified October, 2003 by DM Solutions Group (dev@dmsolutions.ca)
htdocs/common/phpwms/xpath.class.php is licenced under the MPL 1.1. This
is problematic for debian. I imagine that there are other php xpath
libraries though. This seems to be taken from sf.net/projects/phpxpath/
which is now licenced like so according to the web page:
"License: GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser
General Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)".
Appropriate action would be to ask upstream to update it. Looks like
maplab folks bundled phpwms with maplab :/
http://mapserver.refractions.net/
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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