[Freegis-list] Martin Reddy's Open Source Projects

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

Martin Reddy's Open Source Projects
http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/home/source.html

Definitely, someone who would like to be here:
"I am at my happiest when I coding. I have worked on a number of software projects throughout my personal and professional career
and where possible I try to release these as Open Source for anyone to benefit from. That is, freely-available source code, normally under one of the OSI-branded software licenses such as GPL or Apache. Below is a selection of some of my Open Source projects."

So, the softwares:

DEM2GeoEG
http://www.ai.sri.com/~reddy/geovrml/dem2geoeg/
DEM2GeoEG is a program to convert US Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data into a VRML .wrl file that uses the GeoVRML 1.0 GeoElevationGrid. The code is written in C and supports numerous options for manipulating the output model.
(pls pay attention the source code doesn't have any indication of GPL or Apache license, just a 'public domain' status)

tsmApi
http://www.tsmapi.com/
The Tile Set Manager API is a freely-available set of tools for creating massive multi-resolution terrain models that can be browsed by the TerraVision terrain visualization system, as well as produce GeoVRML versions of these models. This library is maintained by a number of engineers at SRI and is released under the Apache license.

yet another coordinate transformation tool
GeoTransform
http://www.ai.sri.com/geotransform/
The source code is available, but it's subject to the GeoTransform License Agreement, which it not a free software license. :((

GeoVRML 1.0 Open Source Sample Implementation
http://www.geovrml.org/1.0/
Developers can obtain the full source code for the GeoVRML 1.0 nodes and associated run-time. These are supplied in the spirit of open source to foster exchange of knowledge and enable the community to further develop these capabilities.
Here we have a problem:
"N.B. Part of the GeoVRML implementation is based upon the GeoTransform Java package. This was derived from the SEDRIS Conversions API and as such comes under the SEDRIS License.  Essentially, the GeoTransform package is freely available and you can use it as a component of a product that you sell. However, you cannot sell the GeoTransform package itself, and all derivative works that you make on the package must be published openly under the terms of the original license."
"The rest of the GeoVRML source code is released under the Open Source Apache license."

cheers,
Felipe.