[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Who to contact about potential JAI licence change?

[Andrea Aime]

Hi Phil,
well, bummer... but thanks a lot for inquiring, nevertheless! :-)

Cheers
Andrea

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I consulted internally and here is the text I was given:
> --
>
> Andrea,
>
> Unfortunately we have no plans to deliver further work on JAI. We don’t
> have plans to re-host the source code now that the previous location,
> java.net, is no longer available. If we got many more requests as yours
> it might be possible that we would find a new home for the previously
> open-sourced code but always under the prior license.
>
> The due-diligence work to determine if it could be open sourced under a
> different license will not be resourced.
> ---
>
> -phil.
>
>
> On 02/25/2018 01:16 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
> sorry for the late follow up, and thanks a lot for your answer, it's quite
> encouraging.
>
> Where do I download JAI sources these days... humm... don't know honestly,
> I have downloaded
> the sources 10+ years ago and used it since :-)
>
> About "proper" open source licence, since it's a library, it would be
> great if the licence was not viral.
> Ideally something widely compatible, like modified BSD or Apache 2, I
> guess GPL with classpath
> exception would do as well.
>
> Thanks a lot for taking an interest in it, I understand there can be
> difficulties, especially
> on a project this old
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> From where are you downloading the JAI source these days ?
>> I assume GPL of some flavour would satisfy being a "proper" open source
>> license.
>> I will pass this request up the chain to see if there is any interest in
>> doing it, but can make no promises.
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>>
>> On 02/19/2018 03:52 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Java Advanced Imaging has been unsupported for a long time, but it's
>> still the best Java based
>> image processing library (at least for large imagery cases, the tiled
>> based, deferred computation
>> approach is something software in other languages is still copying today).
>>
>> Its complete pluggability also makes it very easy to replace old buggy
>> operations with newer ones, which is
>> something done in open source projects like jai-ext:
>> https://github.com/geosolutions-it/jai-ext
>>
>> However, its license is still a problem, it is not considered proper open
>> source.
>>
>> Ideally all the Java portion would be useful, but in case that is a
>> problem, just getting the interfaces relicenced
>> would be of great help.
>> So, is there anyone we could talk to about JAI relicencing? If more than
>> one person/company needs to be
>> contacted I'm happy to reach out, just need to get some contacts.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Andrea Aime
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrea Aime
>
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