Change to MIT License - when this pull request is approved by all authors the License can be changed

[inforithmics]

I think if all authors of ProjNET4GeoApi approve this pull request then the licence of this repository can be changed.

Github Committers:

• [x] @FObermaier
• [x] @airbreather
• [x] @DGuidi
• [x] @jarobbins
• [x] @tommygebhardt signed CLA https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/pull/101
• [x] @xivk
• [x] @vicocz
• [x] @sguimmara
• [x] @jhaverkost Signed CLA https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/pull/80
• [x] @heldersilva His contribution was the LGPL 2.1 License File, Because this Pull request replaces the License File his contribution is therefore replaced.
• [x] @jajco84
• [x] @petlof Agreed by email to the License change.(Yes, I approve.)
• [x] @dependabot Is no person and has therefore no copyright
• [x] @inforithmics As the author of this pull request
• [x] @driekus77 agreed in this pull request https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/pull/120

Copyright in Source Code:

• [x] @dotMorten (Morten Nielsen)
  Has relicensed his Code under MIT https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/issues/18 Github repository https://github.com/dotMorten/ProjNET
• [x] @becio (Spartaco Giubbolini)
• [ ] Urban Science Applications, Inc. git archive of the original cvs code on SourceForge https://github.com/airbreather/GeotoolsNetArchive

MIT licensed Projection Liberaries for replacing Code:

PROJ: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/ https://proj.org/en/9.4/

[airbreather]

For my contributions, count me in. However, this list is incomplete. It's missing Urban Science Applications, Inc., since some of ProjNET was originally based on GeoTools.Net. One example file (out of 12): https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/blob/c38d90cedf8e6f953d523b15658811e704a3dec2/src/ProjNet/CoordinateSystems/Projections/Mercator.cs#L18-L36

That company is still around, so at least there's a chance. In fact, they're my current employer, but I need to be upfront and say that I do not expect my employment relationship with this company to make a difference in the outcome if someone were to contact them to try to get them to agree to this change.

[inforithmics]

@airbreather I can try to contact them too. When you have some contact information.

[airbreather]

contact information

I'm not sure what the most appropriate e-mail address would be, and the public-facing corporate website doesn't go out of its way to help with that either. Try mailing a letter to the "World Headquarters" address (the Detroit one) listed on https://www.urbanscience.com/locations. That should reach the people who can make this decision.

[DGuidi]

ok for me

[FObermaier]

We have a CLA in place that gives "NetTopologySuite-Team" the right to re-license this project. I think this was @xivk's contribution to this project. So any change that has been made in the recent years is covered without approval.

[airbreather]

This seems to be a copy of the original GeoTools.Net Code https://github.com/brandur/geotools

Not exactly. It's still up over at SourceForge, I'll see if I can migrate it to Git and throw an archival copy of it up on GitHub, if you would find this useful.

[airbreather]

I'll see if I can migrate it to Git and throw an archival copy of it up on GitHub, if you would find this useful.

Easy enough... Git isn't quite expressive enough to perfectly represent everything from CVS, but I think this is pretty close: https://github.com/airbreather/GeotoolsNetArchive

[becio]

ok

[inforithmics]

We have a CLA in place that gives "NetTopologySuite-Team" the right to re-license this project. I think this was @xivk's contribution to this project. So any change that has been made in the recent years is covered without approval.

I saw that the CLA Assistant is not yet enabled for this repository. Should I try to enable it (I don't know if I have the permissions to do it).

[inforithmics]

We have a CLA in place that gives "NetTopologySuite-Team" the right to re-license this project. I think this was @xivk's contribution to this project. So any change that has been made in the recent years is covered without approval.

I saw that the CLA Assistant is not yet enabled for this repository. Should I try to enable it (I don't know if I have the permissions to do it).

I saw that the CLA Assistant is already active, around which Date was it activated, Because I don't have administrative access i don't see it. (Looking at pull requests before on Oct 28, 2019) see this pull request https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/pull/58

Should be visible here https://github.com/NetTopologySuite/ProjNet4GeoAPI/settings/hooks

[xivk]

This is ok for me!

[jhaverkost]

I signed the CLA so feel free to relicense my contributions as needed. Good luck.

[tommygebhardt]

Good with me