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

[Martin Reddy]

Hi guys,

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:24:09PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
> > I'm sorry I was not clear - I had just made a suggestion, his page
> > looked great. Maybe Jan-Oliver or Bernhard could invite him, I think he
> > would like to be part of this group.
>
> I have informed Martin about adding his tools to FreeGIS.
> I also invited him to this list.

Thanks for adding our code to the freegis.org site - this is really great. I
will follow up to the GeoVRML mailing list and point those people over here.
This might encourage a few people to talk who didn't know about each other
before.

> > I can't connect to tsmapi.com too, but I thought it could be some local
> > routing problem here, since I can't access a lot of sites in USA. I found
> > an addrees which can be an alias to the site:
> > http://www.ai.sri.com/tsmApi/ (it worked).
>
> I have added tsmApi to FreeGIS with the latter URL.

Our server was down a couple of times over the weekend so this may be the
cause of your connection problems. Certainly, www.tsmapi.com is up at the
moment and this is the preferred name of the site. This code is of course all
Open Sourced under the Apache license, with builds for various platforms
available.

On the GeoTransform front, it is listed as non-free. I don't think that this
is strictly true. Certainly, we would like to have this code released under
something like the Apache license and just be done. However, as the code is
based upon algorithms used by SEDRIS, we are tied to their license. The
SEDRIS guys believe that their license is essentially open, the only
restriction is that you cannot turn around and sell it for profit. I
therefore think that a more correct description would be "free for non-
commercial purposes". A better long-term option would be to put more pressure
on the SEDRIS guys to let us change the license to Apache (or some such).

Cheers,

Martin.


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