Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Code Provenance

This page documents code provenance of rasdaman.

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.

Foreign Packages

The following external packages are being used within rasdaman.

petascope

own licensing scheme: LGPL

ANTLRWorks	​BSD license
com.oreilly.servlet	​license
Commons IO	Apache License
Commons Math	​Apache License
DATE4J	​BSD license
FileUpload	​Apache License
GeoTools Java GIS Toolkit	​LGPL license
HSQLDB	​BSD license
Joda Time	​Apache License
Jai-core	​license
JAXB-api	​CDDL and GPL licenses
JSR 173	​CDDL and GPL licenses
JSR 275	?
JTS Topology Suite	​LGPL license
Pool Component	​Apache License
Vecmath	​New BSD License
XOM	​LGPL license
OGC TEAM Engine	(license regime: MPL1.1) — note that this is not strictly embedded; rather, upon running make ogc, tests are downloaded from OGC and executed against the server. TEAM Engine runs in a separate process

SECORE

own licensing scheme: LGPL

BaseX	​BSD license
NanoXML	​zlib/libpng license
XMLUnit	BSD license
XQJ API	BSD license
EPSG dataset (OGP)	​license

rasgeo

own licensing scheme: LGPL

GDAL

​X/MIT

raswct

own licensing scheme: LGPL

Gritter	​MIT and GPL licenses
jqPlot	​GPL license and ​MIT license
jQuery UI	​GPL license and ​MIT license
JS.Class	​MIT license
OpenLayers	​FreeBSD license

rasdaman (external dependencies)

own licensing scheme: client libraries LGPL, server (rasmgr, rasserver) GPL

libreadline-dev
libssl-dev	​OpenSSL License and the original SSLeay license
libncurses5-dev
PostgreSQL 8.x	PostgreSQL licence
libecpg-dev
libtiff-dev	BSD-like licence
libjpeg8-dev
libpng12-dev
libnetpbm10-dev
libhdf4g-dev
libnetcdf

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, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 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, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Peter Baumann / rasdaman GmbH.
*
* For more information please see <http://www.rasdaman.org>
* or contact Peter Baumann via <baumann@rasdaman.com>.
/