Module DB2 ========== Module Maintainer David Adler Review by Jody Garnett, July 9th, 2006 This module is interesting in that it operatings against a comercial database, leaving us without the rights to distribute a jdbc driver in jar form. As with other modules in this situtation we need to produce a stub jar based on what is needed to make the module compile. This is viewed as being similar in spirit to use of a C++ header file and not of interest in an IP review. The header contained in this file leaves me with a question: /* * Geotools2 - OpenSource mapping toolkit * http://geotools.org * (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 2005. All rights reserved. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; * version 2.1 of the License. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * */ That is this code is has not had copyright assigned to the GeoTools PMC, so I am uncomfortable updating the headers with out first talking to David Adler. We can either proceed to assign copyright to the GeoTools PMC, or wait until we move to OSGEO giving IBM a chance to formally donate code to the OSGO Foundation. Note we have publically thanks IBM for their involvement with GeoTools at the first Where 2.0 conference. This (C) with all rights reserved was a surprise to me. org.geotools.data.db2 --------------------- Added in GeoTools 2.1 to facilitate use of DB2 with GeoServer and uDig. IP: - Headers updated to GeoTools - OpenSource mapping toolkit - (C) IBM presents a management issues - LGPL license is compatible, so library use at least is not compromized