license clarification

[mdolling-gfz]

The file GeometryService.java is missing a license header to put it under the classpath exception of the license.

Without the exception in the header the file basically belongs to a GPL-2.0.

Is this intended or was it just forgotten?

@cxplonka and I need this information for a release.

[philjord]

You are correct; as it stands it derives from GPL2 and therefore is GPL2, however this is simply an oversight during commit, everything in the javax.medi.j3d package should have the classpath exception. @ctrueden can you confirm that we should put the standard license into this file? @hharrison can you make the change once ctrueden has confirmed? I'll make a the change in the 1.7 version

[philjord]

Can I suggest this as the license header:

/*

• Copyright (c) 2020 JogAmp Community. All rights reserved.
• DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
• This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
• under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
• published by the Free Software Foundation. The JogAmp Community designates
• this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
• by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
• This code 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
• version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
• accompanied this code).
• The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those
• of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies,
• either expressed or implied, of the JogAmp Community.

• */

[ctrueden]

I hereby disclaim all copyright interest in my past and future contributions to all Java-3D-related repositories, including hharrison/java3d-core, hharrison/java3d-utils, hharrison/vecmath, philjord/java3d-core, philjord/java3d-utils, philjord/vecmath, scijava/java3d-core, scijava/java3d-utils, and scijava/vecmath. I fully support the licensing of any and all code I produced in this regard, under whatever license the copyright holders feel is most appropriate.

Although IANAL, I hope that's clear enough. :smile:

[philjord]

Thank you Curtis, that's great.

[hharrison]

I pushed out an update to my j3d-core repo adding the missing license, it generally matches the form of the rest of the files in the j3d-core repo. Not intending to tag a release, just a reference for anyone that needs clarity on the license.