GeoTools Provenance Review

Nothing to see here - why? Because the work is being done on a module by module basis, and the results posted to the geotools wiki. We will post results here as they are made available.

You can find status, including IP status, from this page here:
 * Module Matrix

A couple of modules have already encountered issues, mostly those working with propiatary systems such as ArcSDE or Oracle where our ability to distribute jars and drivers is in question.

Actions
The following actions have been taken in response to issues raised during the iccubation process.

Turning Off Downloads
After a public email on the GeoServer list, we have chosen to turn off historical downloads of the geotools platform, and produced a new download that does not contain ArcSDE support.

We may choose to turn historical downloads on again, or issue a patch for each stable branch, depending on community needs and involvement.

Contact EPSG Provideers
Frank was kind enough to contact the prociders of the EPSG dataset and inform them of our difficulties in delivering the content verbatium for databases such as HSQL.

Multi License code
Some code has been donated to the the project under a range of conditions, we have chosen to include the appropriate information in a series of LICENSE.TXT files included with each binary.

We will review these files to discuss any specific needs that must be addressed in client application code, or included documentation:
 * The Developers Guide will credit each license
 * The Developers Guide will be packaged and included with each release
 * An About class will be created, and make a vailable a list of licenses, allowing client applications the ability to pop up a Swing Dialog as needed, or make use of their own presentation layer (say J2EE or SWT application.

Developers Guide
Updated project header with the following changes:
 * 2002-2005 changed to 2002-2006
 * Geotools2 changed to GeoTools

Link to Developers Guide page modifed: [Coding Conventions]

Source Code
The reivew process is being intergrated into the development community, that is taken right into the source code where it can be tracked and versioned along with the code.

The following files were created by Jody Garnett as part of the initial review process which completed on August 7th, 2006. These files are maintained, by the module maintainer associated with the section of code described.

Module
These modules make up the GeoTools library itself, and form a layered architecture covering a range of geospatial activities. -

Plug-in
These plug-ins slot into the GeoTools library making additional capabilities and data formats avaiable. -

Extentions
These modules are built on top of the geotools library and add additional analysis and functionality around the abstractions captured by the core library.

Demo
These files are used as teaching aids. We are considering releasing them as public domain to aliviate any initial adotpion concerns. -

Spike
These files are not covered by the provenance review as they are experiments, and thus not distributed.