On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 > Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 > > -- Regards, Rashad
