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:

• @FObermaier
• @airbreather
• @DGuidi
• @jarobbins
• @tommygebhardt
  signed CLA Add orthographic projection class #101
• @xivk
• @vicocz
• @sguimmara
• @jhaverkost
  Signed CLA Fix incorrect parameter order in coordinate system constructors (#64) #80
• @heldersilva
  His contribution was the LGPL 2.1 License File, Because this Pull request replaces the License File his contribution
  is therefore replaced.
• @jajco84
• @petlof
  Agreed by email to the License change.(Yes, I approve.)
• @dependabot
  Is no person and has therefore no copyright
• @inforithmics
  As the author of this pull request
• @driekus77
  agreed in this pull request Fixing build issue with Atanh and fixing some build warnings #120

Copyright in Source Code:

• @dotMorten (Morten Nielsen)
  Has relicensed his Code under MIT Licencing #18
  Github repository https://github.com/dotMorten/ProjNET
• @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/

[sguimmara]

Ok for me

[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):

ProjNet4GeoAPI/src/ProjNet/CoordinateSystems/Projections/Mercator.cs

Lines 18 to 36 in c38d90c

	// SOURCECODE IS MODIFIED FROM ANOTHER WORK AND IS ORIGINALLY BASED ON GeoTools.NET:
	/*
	* Copyright (C) 2002 Urban Science Applications, Inc.
	*
	* This library 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
	*
	* This library 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 this library; if not, write to the Free Software
	* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
	*
	*/

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.

[jarobbins]

I'm ok with the MIT license.

[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 #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