JTS ORA Contribution
Formal Correspondence to Martin Davis in response to a request to relicense GeoTools 2.0.x ORA code as part of the JTS Topology Suite at LocationTech.
The JTS Topology Suite is relicensing from LGPL to BSD / EPL and needs our permission to relicense:
To: Martin Davis
Thanks Martin:
We are happy to help, you have permission to redistribute the GeoTools 2.0.x code contained in org.locationtech.jtstest.testbuilder.io.oracle under a BSD-3 license below:
To use this you can add the following to the files reusing GeoTools code:
/*
* Copyright (c) 2003 Open Source Geospatial Foundation, All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms
* of the OSGeo BSD License v1.0 available at:
*
* https://www.osgeo.org/sites/osgeo.org/files/Page/osgeo-bsd-license.txt
*/
The complete osgeo-bsd-license.txt is quoted below:
Copyright (c) 2003, Open Source Geospatial Foundation
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Thank you for your hard work on the JTS Topology Suite project, our project would not be possible without your efforts.
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