[TAVERNA-1004] Clarify license of 52n-wps-client-lib

• Type: Task
• Status: Done
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Done
• Component/s: Taverna Plugin GIS
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Edi Karadumi
• Created: 14/Jul/16 11:54
• Updated: 11/Aug/16 12:57
• Resolved: 11/Aug/16 12:57

Description

52n-wps-client-lib from 52North has GNU General Public License Version 2 as stated in the link below:

https://github.com/52North/WPS

52North licensing section (http://52north.org/about/licensing) mentions that the licenses are changing from GPL to Apache in the future developments, but it is not clear if this library's license might change and when.

In addition, it depends on other libraries

52n-wps-io - Apache v2 license
52n-wps-io-impl - GPL v2 license
52n-wps-io-geotools - GPL v2 license
52n-xml-wps-v100 - GPL v2 license

I have already contacted the 52North Geoprocessing community and I am waiting for an answer. I am testing the library without using the 52-wps-io-geotools dependency as it is only used in the examples, and I am calculating the efforts needed to do a custom implementation of 52n-wps-io-impl.