Re: [smila-dev] AW: Aperture-trunk now under BSD

["Antoni Mylka" <antoni.mylka@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/11/28  <Igor.Novakovic@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Leo,
>
>> As of yesterday, we have changed the license of the Aperture project
> to BSD.
> this is really a great news!
> In the name of the whole SMILA team, I would like to thank you and your
> project colleagues for letting this to happen.
>
>> You can download the trunk of the project and build a release yourself
> now, for SMILA,
>> we can also make a new release of Aperture, but this would take some
>> time for testing and discussion,
>> and I would rather invest the time into fixing bugs, etc.
> Now that the license of Aperture is definitely not an issue any more, we
> can accelerate the IP process dramatically.
>
> But, to get the Aperture through the eclipse IP-Process, and therefore
> distribute it together with SMILA, we need an officially released
> version from you.
>
> I think that it is a good thing not to release Aperture right now, since
> we still need to figure out in detail how to bundle Aperture and its 3rd
> party components. (Hint: These components have also to go through the IP
> process.)
> Therefore will Daniel take a closer look next week at how 3rd-party libs
> are integrated in Aperture and arrange with you the proper bundling of
> them.

The aperture dependencies are a tricky thing. We use stuff from the
Nepomuk project, that hasn't been released, a trunk version of pdfbox
and some jars with our own bugfixes. We tried to document all of that
in the 'patches' folder in the main source tree as well as on a wiki
page:

http://aperture.wiki.sourceforge.net/Dependencies

If you have any questions feel free to post them to aperture-dev.

-- 
Antoni Myłka
antoni.mylka@xxxxxxxxx