[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 2.0 and sextante?

Rahkonen Jukka jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Tue Jun 4 22:53:46 CEST 2013


Hi,

I have nothing to say about the license debate but quite a many sites in the web claim that SEXTANTE is using GPL2, including this one:
http://www.sextantegis.com/index.html

I guess it is MIT now. It is hard to update the whole Internet but perhaps some most obvious sites could me made to spread correct information?

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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Victor Olaya wrote:

> Let me reword my phrase:

> It is sad that you decided to create your own API just because (as
Alvaro said), you didn't want anything created by the gvSIG
association to not be GPL. So instead, of contributing to  SEXTANTE,
you wrote your own geoprocessing API and wrote your new geprocesses
for your API instead of directly for SEXTANTE.

> So, in the end, the reason why we do not have those geoprocesses in
the official SEXTANTE bindings is a matter of licenses, because, if
you were happy with the SEXTANTE license, I suppose you would have
contributed those new algorithms to SEXTANTE (as far as I understand,
the gvSIG project had no other reason for forking SEXTANTE than the
license issue, right?). There is already an app-specific package with
algorithms such as those ones, that only run on gvSIG and are not
generic, so that wouldn't be a problem

> Ideally, the changes you made for the new geoprocessing framework in
2.0 should be on SEXTANTE, having new bindings for 2.0 (and maybe
other changes that could benefit other applications), but the lack of
understanding between both projects lead to this. And that lack of
understanding was caused by a license issue...

> I am not saying it is a bad thing, but that's how it all happened....

> Cheers

2013/6/4 Cèsar Ordiñana <cordinyana at gvsig.com>:
> El 04/06/13 15:30, Victor Olaya escribió:
>> "On one hand, in order to improve the usability that we started in gvSIG
>> 2.0, we dealt with the option to have an unified geoprocessing manager,
>> where the user can find any geoprocess available in gvSIG. And our first
>> objective, from the point of view of the product, we had to include all
>> the geoprocessing tools of the gvSIG 1.x versions for the users. For
>> that, in gvSIG 2.0 you can find the geoprocessing tools from the "old"
>> gvSIG geoprocessing manager (clip, buffer, union...), the raster
>> geoprocesses of gvSIG, and the geoprocessing tools from the Sextante
>> library."
>>
>> I agree that this is a good thing, and it is sad that this development
>> was not incorporated to SEXTANTE just for a matter of licenses...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Victor
>
> Sorry but this is not true. Those geoprocesses use the gvSIG 2.0 APIs
> and wouldn't run on sextante alone, regardless of the license.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Cèsar Ordiñana Navarro
> gvSIG software architect
> DiSiD Technologies (http://www.disid.com)
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