Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Code Provenance
This page documents code provenance of rasdaman, obtained from evaluating the makefiles generating all rasdaman code.
In brief: the rasdaman server is published under a GPL licence whereas all client libraries are published under an LGPL licence. Therefore, using rasdaman and linking it with own client code will not impose any constraints, whereas modifying the server code requires republishing its modified source code under the same licence regime.
Paleo rasdaman
The rasdaman code originally has been developed through research projects led by Peter Baumann, culminating in the establishment of rasdaman GmbH as a research spin-off dedicated to the commercialization of rasdaman. By way of legal contract, Peter Baumann / rasdaman GmbH is rightful owner of the code.
Starting 2008, rasdaman GmbH - in collaboration with the Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems research group at Jacobs University - has derived an open-source version of rasdaman, now known as rasdaman community which is hosted at this site, www.rasdaman.org. In the process of establishing a clear code provenance policy, rasdaman GmbH has signed the same submitter agreement that every committer today has to agree with (see below).
Original Contributions
Every submitter, enforced by the Patch Manager logic, has to accept the Rasdaman License Agreement, so it is ensured that such contributions are conforming to the overall license statement. Submissions are kept in a local database and can be retrieved at any time.
List of Foreign Packages Used
The following external packages are being used within rasdaman.
rasdaman server / C++
own licensing scheme: client libraries LGPL, server (rasmgr, rasserver) GPL
Java (rasj)
own licensing scheme: LGPL
raswct
own licensing scheme: LGPL
| package | license |
| Gritter | MIT license |
| jqPlot | MIT license |
| jQuery UI | MIT license |
| JS.Class | MIT license |
| OpenLayers | FreeBSD license |
WCS client
own licensing scheme: LGPL
wcst_import
own licensing scheme: LGPL
| package | license |
| 1. glob2 | BSD License |
| 2. gdal | MIT License |
| 3. pygrib | OSI Approved License |
| 4. netCDF4 | OSI Approved License |
| 5. arrow | Apache License |
| 6. numpy | OSI Approved License |
| 7. jsonschema | MIT License |
Petascope
own licensing scheme: LGPL
| package | license |
| 1. com.fasterxml.jackson | Apache 2.0 license |
| 2. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-jdbc | Apache 2.0 license |
| 3. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-web | Apache 2.0 license |
| 4. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-web | Apache 2.0 license |
| 5. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-test | Apache 2.0 license |
| 6. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-starter-log4j | Apache 2.0 license |
| 7. org.hibernate.hibernate-entitymanager | LGPL 2.1 license |
| 8. postgresql | BSD license |
| 9. org.xerial.sqlite-jdbc | Apache 2.0 license |
| 10. com.enigmabridge.hibernate4-sqlite-dialect | MIT license |
| 12. org.hsqldb | BSD license |
| 13. com.h2database | EPL 1.0, MPL 2.0 license |
| 14. org.liquibase.liquibase-core | Apache 2.0 license |
| 15. junit.junit | Apache EPL 1.0 license |
| 16. org.springframework.spring-test | Apache 2.0 license |
| 17. org.apache.httpcomponentns.httpclient | Apache 2.0 license |
| 18. xom.xom | LGPL 2.1 license |
| 19. commons-io.commons-io | Apache 2.0 license |
| 20. org.apache.commons.commons-lang3 | Apache 2.0 license |
| 21. org.apache.commons.commons-math | Apache 2.0 license |
| 22. org.gdal.gdal | Apache MIT |
| 23. com.eaio.uuid.uuid | MIT |
| 24. joda-time.joda-time | Apache 2.0 license |
| 25. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-devtools | Apache 2.0 license |
| 26. org.antlr.antlr4 | BSD license |
| 27. com.intellij.annotations | Apache 2.0 license |
| 28. org.springframework.boot.spring-boot-maven-plugin | Apache 2.0 license |
| 29. org.liquibase.liquibase-maven-plugin | Apache 2.0 license |
| 30. org.apache.maven.plugins.maven-surefire-plugin | Apache 2.0 license |
SECORE
own licensing scheme: LGPL
| package | license |
| BaseX | BSD license |
| NanoXML | zlib/libpng license |
| XMLUnit | BSD license |
| EPSG dataset (OGP) | license |
Copyright Header
All files in rasdaman have the following header (formatting varies between C/C++/Java/Makefile/shell scripts/etc.). While the server parts are GPL, the client APIs are LGPL; as the latter are the only parts linked into some application code, this allows any kind of code (including proprietary code) to make use of rasdaman.
Should an "own license" statement above be inconsistent with a file header, then the file header prevails.
rasdaman server: GPL
/* * This file is part of rasdaman community. * * Rasdaman community is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * Rasdaman community 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 General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with rasdaman community. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * Copyright 2003 - 2020 Peter Baumann / rasdaman GmbH. * * For more information please see <http://www.rasdaman.org> * or contact Peter Baumann via <baumann@rasdaman.com>. */
remaining parts (such as client C++ and Java API libraries, SECORE, etc.): LGPL
/* * This file is part of rasdaman community. * * Rasdaman community 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, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * Rasdaman community 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. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with rasdaman community. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * Copyright 2003 - 2020 Peter Baumann / rasdaman GmbH. * * For more information please see <http://www.rasdaman.org> * or contact Peter Baumann via <baumann@rasdaman.com>. */
