Vincent Massol wrote: Emory Utilities code is in the public domain (no copyright). I don't know if we can relicense it under LGPL, so what does that mean for our code?

On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> In order to fix issue http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4428 >>> I've had to dive very deep and fix Sun's URLClassLoader which has a >>> large number of problems. To do so I had to rewrite several classes >>> and I've taken sources from Emory Utilities (http://dcl.mathcs.emory.edu/php/loadPage.php?content=util/features.html#cla… >>> ) and modified them slightly (since they were missing the ability to >>> support custom URL Stream handlers). >>> >>> So I have a new URIClassLoader that extends URLClassLoader + a set >>> of >>> associated classes (stream handlers and url connection >>> implementations). >>> >>> I'd like to commit this in a new xwiki-classloader module, dedicated >>> to classloading code (same as we have xwiki-xml for ex). >>> >>> Let me know if you need more details. >> Emory Utilities code is in the public domain (no copyright). I don't >> know if we can relicense it under LGPL, so what does that mean for >> our code? > It looks ok for me: > > " > [snip] > Dedicator makes this dedication for the benefit of the public at > large and to the detriment of the Dedicator's heirs and successors. > Dedicator intends this dedication to be an overt act of > relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights under > copyright law, whether vested or contingent, in the Work. Dedicator > understands that such relinquishment of all rights includes the > relinquishment of all rights to enforce (by lawsuit or otherwise) > those copyrights in the Work. > > Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the > Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, > modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any > purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by > methods that have not yet been invented or conceived. > > "

See this: http://www.mail-archive.com/geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02633.h… " You can apply your own license to public domain code at will. So just attach a normal GeoTools header (copyright PMC and license LGPL) to it, and then add some notes giving credit to the original authors and making sure it is clear where it came from. "