On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:37:41PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Hi all, > > The Dutch Kadaster has recently publish their official datum correction > grid to better support to transformation between the RD and RD/NAP > projections and ETRS89. It was discussed on the Dutch OSGeo mailinglist > in the thread starting at: > > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/dutch/2014-October/000975.html > > Unfortunately the license for the NTv2 & VDatum files is problematic, > not an uncommon for other national government datum files either. It has > similar restrictions as the EPSG dataset, only allowing modification of > correction values to a certain extent for instance. The license further > requires that the correct implementation of the grid corrections are > tested. > > The issues around this datum grid are documented in the README.Debian > for the package I've created: > > http://git.linuxminded.nl/?p=pkg-grass/proj-rdnap;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian;h=4efae0126edf08fd02daaa0f3bb1e3ceb571f928;hb=HEAD > > I'd like to upload this proj-rdnap package to non-free so users don't > need to get it from a 3rd party repository, or jump through the > registration hoops to install it manually. > > But I'd like to hear your opinion about packaging non-free datumgrids > for PROJ.4 first. >
That should be ok for non-free, but you know this is usually something about which ftpmasters have the last word. > Maybe the non-free restrictions are sufficient to not even have the git > repository on Alioth, or other reasons to not consider uploading to > non-free? > No, if we had such sort of restriction we would not be able to distribute at all. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
