Hello everyone,    I am now under the strong impression that the GeoKettle 
package in OSGeo-Live violates the GPL in the sense that the source code is 
unavailable.
    I emailed Thierry Badard about the GeoKettle source code and got no answer. 
Martin Seterstoen got in touch with me directly and asked me if I had found the 
source code already because he also could not find it. That person did find the 
source for an earlier version of GeoKettle.

    I dug further inside the actual OSGeo-Live distribution and found version 
2.6 in /usr/local/share/gisvm/bim/install_geokettle.sh at the following url:
  
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/geokettle/geokettle-2.6-r192-with_plugins.zip
The GEOKETTLE_README.txt package inside OSGeo-Live however, mentions only 
version 2.5.OSGeo-Live's website also lists this package as being version 2.6 
of GeoKettle
  https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geokettle_overview.html

To sum up:    I can't find the source. I have officially given up looking for 
it and am now actively poking people to see if it comes out :-)

I would like to ask:0. Please point me to the source if it is available and I 
have fumbled my google-fu, my find-fu and my grep-fu.
1. Is this list the right place for inquiries about OSGeo-Live packages that 
might violate the GPL? (in the sense that the source code is unavailable)
2. If so, please take steps to either remove that package from OSGeo-Live or 
publish the source code somehow. That might be a topic for discussion in the 
next OSGeo-Live meeting.

Best,Daniel Araujo Miranda
Forensics ExpertBrazilian Federal Police
 

    Em Quarta-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2016 18:31, Daniel Araujo Miranda 
<daniel_a_mira...@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
 
 

 Hello,I apologize in advance if I have missed something obvious, but where is 
the source code for GeoKettle?
I just picked up geokettle seriously for the first time as a candidate for 
doing some heavy lifting here at work. After realizing that it has not been 
updated in three years, I tried to fetch the source code to take a look.
Searching said source code already took more than an hour now. The trac and the 
forum are offline, the documentation link in the project's homepage is broken 
and SourceForge only has the packaged application.
It is an amazing project and a worthy part of OSGeo-Live, I'd hate to see it 
abandoned.

Best,Daniel


 
   
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