Re: OSSIM packaging (Was: OTB)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> wrote:

On 11-12-15 09:07, Rashad Kanavath wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 09-12-15 18:21, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> specifically what had to be done for ossim?
>>
>> Unfortunately a lot. The current packaging uses a custom upstream
>> tarball from SVN, but the published upstream tarball should be used now.
>>
>> That contains a lot more that just the ossim sources currently used by
>> the package, so an extensive update to the copyright file is required
>> plus possible repacking of non-free bits. The packaging needs to be
>> updated to build ossim from the ossim subdirectory instead of the root
>> (using the dh --sourcedirectory option) at the minimum.
>>
>>
> can't we repack the ossim source and take out just ossim-core. ?
>
> I can take up this task if nobody is there. So far I found the following
> issues:

Which issues are those? You didn't include any in your mail.

oops..

There are issue with embedded sources inside ossim

GeoTrans

shapelib

matrix lib

But in the debian/copyright file, I found notes explaining these stuff.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/ossim.git/tree/debian/copyright#n171

I've looked at OSSIM 1.8.20-1 again, and the licensing is a mess. The
website claims that the code is under the LGPL-3, but most files
reference the top-level LICENSE.txt which contains the MIT/Expat license
terms. Some files claim the license is LGPL and reference the top-level
LICENSE.txt which is the aforementioned MIT/Expat license.

The current license is MIT for ossim-core. This is given incorrectly in the website.

Note that there are some part of the code which are still under LPGL-2. ossim-plugins for instance. There are mostly thirdparty code contributed by OTB and others for reading specific format such as hdf, raw, kakadu etc.. That never will come under ossim-core.

Ossim always "ships" a single archive with everything rather than seperate packages for ossim-core, ossimplanet etc..

I think the focus of packaging will be on ossim-core not others. This is enough for atleast thirdparties such as OTB and opticks.

Any update of OSSIM in Debian requires that the upstream developers fix
this licensing mess.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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Regards,
Rashad