GDAL Provenance Review

Committers

Current:

See COMMITERS file.

Historical and Current:

fwarmerdam & warmerda - Frank Warmerdam
dron - Andrey Kiselev 
danmo & daniel & dmorissette - Daniel Morissette (MapGears)
dnadeau & denad21 - Denis Nadeau
kdejong & kor - Kor de Jong (geog.uu.nl / PCRaster)
aubin - Mark(?) Aubin - Keyhole
svillene & stephane - Stephane Villeneuve 
kmelero - Ken Melero (SANZ)
nemec - Philip Nemec (Keyhole)
pka - Pirmin Kalberer (Sourcepole)
pgs - Paul Spencer (DM Solutions)
assefa - Assefa Yewondwossen (DM Solutions)
jlacroix & julien - Julie Lacroix (Map Gears)
shadow   (shadow @ dementia.org?)
mbrudka - Marek Brudka (aster.pl?)
mbp - Mark Phillips (Tiger writer)
gpotts - Garrett Potts (OSSIM)
gwalter - Gillian Walter (Atlantis)
aamici - Alessandro Amici
kintel - Marius Kintel - dgnlib only
lichun - Lichun Wang at ITC. 
hobu - Howard Butler (Hobu Inc)
bsimon - Benjamin Simon - pgchip 
kshih - Ken Shih
hsaggu - Harbinder Saggu (Safe Software)
ryan - Ryan Proulx (Safe Software)
geh - Graeme Hiebert (Safe Software)
ssoule - Steve Soule (Vexcel)
pnagy - Peter Nagy (Vexcel)
sperkins - Simon Perkins (LANL)
osemykin - Oleg Semykin
cees - Cees Wesseling (PCRaster)
rblazek - Radim Blazek (GRASS)
cfis - Charles Savage - swig/ruby
mloskot - Mateusz Loskot 
dwallner - Daniel Wallner
collinsb - Benjamin Collins (MITRE) - swig/java
jimg - James Gallager (OPeNDAP)
kruland - Kevin Ruland
vgough - ? - 1999 - configure stuff. 
silke - Silke Reimer (Intevation)
ilucena - Ivan Lucena (Idrisi)
shalasz - Steve Halasz (Debian)
srioux - Sylvain Rioux (Softmap)
ldjohn (? - rawdataset.cpp - one commit - 2001)

Included Libraries

• zlib: gdal/frmts/zlib
• libtiff: gdal/frmts/gtiff/libtiff
• libgeotiff: gdal/frmts/gtiff/libgeotiff
• libjpeg: gdal/frmts/jpeg/libjpeg
• libpng: gdal/frmts/png/libpng
• libgif/libungif: gdal/frmts/gif/libungif
• libcsf: gdal/frmts/pcraster/libcsf
• rstlib: gdal/frmts/idrisi/rstlib
• hdfeoslib: gdal/frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos

Non-free Libraries

Note: all the following are build options, not required.

• Oracle OCI for OCI OGR driver.
• ESRI SDE for SDE OGR Driver.
• ECW SDK for ECW/JP2ECW GDAL driver (close to free now I think).
• Kakadu for JP2KAK GDAL driver.
• MrSID SDK for MrSID/JP2MrSID driver.

Code Reviewed

gdal/port

• Various contributors including Daniel Morissette, Andrey Kiselev, Frank Warmerdam and Mateusz Loskot.
• cpl_strtod.cpp is derived from public domain source (properly labelled).

gdal/gcore

• Various contributed, but mostly FrankW.
• All copyright held by FrankW.
• Version.rc contributed without copyright notice by Martin Daly, clarification requested.

gdal/alg

• contour.cpp: Joint copyright between FrankW and ACT.
• gdal_crs.c: derived from old GRASS/UMichigan code also under MIT/X license, properly noted in headers.
• gdalmediancut.cpp: derived from libtiff tiffmedian.c utility under a GDAL compatible license. Properly noted in headers.
• gdalrasterize.cpp: Derived from OpenEV code. Relicensed from LGPL to MIT/X by explicit grant from copyright holder (Frank Warmerdam).
• gvgcpfit.c: Believed to be derived from Numerical Recipes in C. It has not been used for some time, but was still in the CVS repository. I have now removed it.
• llrasterize.c: Derived from GD which has compatible MIT/X license. Properly noted in header.
• thinplatespline.cpp: Contributed by VIZRT Inc., Relicensed to MIT/X with their explicit permission as noted in the header.

gdal/bridge

• All FrankW, no issues of note.

gdal/data

• Contains various data files without copyright messages embedded.
• cubewerx_extra.wkt: derived from definitions distributed by Cubewerx, rights unclear.
• ecw_cs.dat: Derived via much processing from ERMapper GDT definitions, rights unclear.
• esri_extra.wkt: Derived with some processing from projections definitions in ArcGIS, rights unclear.
• ellipsoid.csv, gcs.csv, gdal_datum.csv, pcs.csv, prime_meridian.csv, projop_wparm.csv, unit_of_measure.csv: Derived from EPSG. Redistribution may violate the EPSG "distribute as a whole" requirement.
• seed_2d.dgn, seed_3d.dgn: Exact source of these files is unclear.
• NTS-50kindex.csv: Provided by Matt Wilkie, derived from NRCan dataset, rights unclear.

TO_RESOLVE

gdal/apps

• gdal_contour.cpp: copyright held by ACT.
• gdaltindex.cpp: copyright held by DM Solutions.
• gdalwarp.cpp, gdalwarpsimple.cpp: copyright held by i-cubed.

gdal/debian

• copyright somewhat unclear, not actually part of software.

gdal/dist_docs

• All written by me, not used any more.

gdal/doc

• no copyright messages in .dox files.
• ERMapper logo used with permissions.
• "ru" subdirectory (Russian translations) by Andrey Kiselev.

gdal/pymod

• gdal_merge.py: copyright held by Atlantis.
• gdal_wrap.c: Generated with SWIG under very permissive license (noted in file).
• Scripts mostly by me, all ok.

gdal/pymod/samples

• various contributors, all under proper and compatible copyright headers.

gdal/wince

• all written by Mateusz Loskot.

gdal/vb6

• all written by FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_rmts/generic

• Some files here (and elsewhere in OGR) copyright Softmap Inc (but MIT/X).

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/avc

• Some copyright Daniel Morissette, MIT/X.
• Included copy of dbfopen.h from Shapelib. We really ought to reference the one in ../shape.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_rmts/csv

• drv_*.html not copyright.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_rmts/dgn

• Copyright Avenza Systems (MIT/X).
• dgn_pge.cpp, dgn_pge.h, pge_test.cpp, vbe_pge.cpp: copyright Pacific Gas and Electric, all rights reserved! TO_RESOLVE
• web/* docs lack any copyright message. The isff.txt originally came from Intergraph and dgn.html is a reformatted version of that. Perhaps these ought to move out of GDAL CVS tree TO_RESOLVE

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dods

• all FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dxfdwg

• OdFileBuf.h, OdFileBuf.cpp is derived from DWGdirect source code. No copyright message! TO_RESOLVE

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/fme

• All code is Copyright Safe Software, "All Rights Reserved"! TO_RESOLVE

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/gml

• All FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/grass

• copyright Radim Blazek, MIT/X.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/ili

• ili level code copyright Pirmin Kalberer (Sourcepole), MIT/X.
• iom/ili2c.jar is ambiguous. TO_RESOLVE
• iom source code is all LGPL (per iom/README.src.txt) but none of the

 source files have a copyright or license header.  TO_RESOLVE

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mem

• All FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab

• Copyright Daniel Morissette, Stepane Villeneuve, Frank Warmerdam (MIT/X).
• Some code derived from MapServer with credit in headers, no problem forseen.
• All clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mysql

• FrankW, clean.
• Howard Butler is co-author of some modules (but copyright all FrankW).

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/ntf

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/oci

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/odbc

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/ogdi

• Copyright Daniel Morrissette, MIT/X.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/pg

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/pgeo

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/rec

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/s57

• added copyright messages to s57tables.h (derived from s57objectclasses.csv).
• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/sde

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/sdts

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape

• inline copy of Shapelib which is dual licensed MIT/X and LGPL.
• Note, Shapelib code was written while I was at PCI, but permission was given to release it as open source.
• Some (OGR) code is Copyright Softmap Inc, MIT/X.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/sqlite

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/tiger

• Copyright mostly FrankW, but also Mark Phillips, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/vrt

• FrankW, clean.

gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts

• Some copyright softmap Inc, all MIT/X.

gdal/ogr

• SpatialReferenceIdl.idl, GeometryIdl.idl, CoverageIdl.idl: From OGC spec package I believe. TO_RESOLVE
• ogr_capi_test.c: no copyright message, written by Daniel Morissette. Added copyright.
• oledbgis.h: No copyright message, mostly OGC spec constants.
• swq.h, swq.c: Has alternate form of MIT/X license (should review). TO_RESOLVE
• Copyright holders include Frank Warmerdam, Daniel Morissette, Softmap Inc., Stephane Villeneuve., Andrey Kiselev, Information Interoperability Institute

gdal/ogr/wcts

• FrankW, clean.
• No copyrights on xml sample docs (protocol messages), but also all authored under the normal terms.
• No copyright message for html docs.

gdal/ogr/ccclient, gdal/ogr/ccdriver

• Removed all contents since they are of no modern use, and may have included outside source.

gdal/ogr/sfcom_oledb

• sfcom_oledb/ICommandWidthParametersImpl.h: Provided by ESRI without clear copyright/license terms. TO_RESOLVE
• atl_net/ICRRowsetImpl.h,IFRowsetImpl.h,CCRRowsetImpl.h,SFAccessorImpl.h: Modified form of code from ATLDB.H, properly credited in the header. Copyright claim is dubious. TO_RESOLVE
• atl_net/IColumnsRowsetImpl.h: Derived from code for article by Len Holgate, JetByte Limited. It is not clear if the code is properly licensed, though it is attributed. TO_RESOLVE
• Similar issues to above in atl_vc6 directory.
• Code Copyright Softmap, FrankW,
• Some files lack headers (mostly MS Visual Studio generated files).

gdal/ogr/sfcom_serv

• Obsolete code, all deleted from CVS.

TODO

• gdal/*.*
• gdal/frmts
• gdal/swig