License

The GeoTools project is a member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation; the foundation holds copyright for the project.

As an open source project GeoTools is made available to you using an open source (LGPL) license as described below.

Source License

GNU Lesser General Public License

The source code of the GeoTools library is distributed under the LGPL license:

GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
http://geotools.org
(C) 2002-2020, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

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; version 2.1 of the License.

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.

The text of the license itself is included with the library as a “LICENSE” file. This license can be downloaded from the Free Software Foundation:

• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

In addition several modules contain code made available to us under a different license:

• gt-main (BSD License)

• gt-xsd-core (Apache License)

• gt-brewer (Apache License)

Contributions to the GeoTools codebase use a contributor license agreement to assign copyright to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Some government members are required to place code contributions into the public domain, these contributions are then added to the library by an individual.

Document License

This generated documentation is distributed using creative commons with attribution license.

For details see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In addition some content is baed on material provided to us under a different license:

• The MBStyle extension documentation includes the MapBox Style Specification, using a BSD license.

• This user guide started out life as a wiki, with contents distributed using the free documentation license:

  Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Open Geospatial Foundation
  
  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
  terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version
  published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being with no
  Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being no Front-Cover Texts, and with
  the Back-Cover Texts being no Back-Cover Texts.
  

The source code examples included in this documentation are provided to the public domain.

These examples (located in project’s doc folder) are explicitly placed into the public domain to enable you to cut and paste into your own application.:

GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
http://geotools.org

(C) 2006-2020, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

This file is hereby placed into the Public Domain. This means anyone is
free to do whatever they wish with this file. Use it well and enjoy!