Hi In my mind (from the discussions we have had on this list) the issue is still not resolved. I think there is nothing to stop someone creating an unofficial / independent gdal + ecw installer if they are not so scrupulous / concerned about the licensing and make it so it overwrites the gdal in the official qgis installer. Maybe even this is considered bad Im not sure, but at the very least QGIS project wont be involved in any wrongdoing if the legality is questionable. But I think until its 100% confirmed that ECW license is compatibe with QGIS & GDAL we should err on the side of caution when it comes to shipping ecw out of the box with QGIS.
Regards Tim On 1/11/07, Thevenon Fabrice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I have read with a great interest your discusion about ECW licence. It doesn't seems very simple… The ability of QGis (windows binaries) to read ECW is also a fundamental point for us if we want to adopt QGIS. Several opensource project (gvSIG, Mapserver, FWTools, …) based of course upon GDAL raster access, are already able to read ECW, but not QGIS. The link produced by Yves Jacobin seems to break the seals on GPL software : ***************************************** http://www.ermapper.com/downloads/download_view.aspx?PRODUCT_VERSION_ID=305 Licensing: Free use license: A free license, providing unlimited read/500MB-per-image compression for ECW and JPEG 2000 in any application including commercial applications. GPL-style license: A free license, providing unlimited read/unlimited compression for ECW and JPEG 2000 in any GPL style application. Commercial license: Once off fee license with no royalties for commercial applications needing unlimited compression for ECW and JPEG 2000. Unless you need to support compression of images larger than 500MB in commercial applications, one of the two free licenses should address your needs. Release Date: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 ****************************************** Does it means we can expect a windows compiled distribution of QGIS that will read ECW ? Or is there still a problem ? Many Thanks ! Fabrice THEVENON Direction des Moyens Techniques Conseil Général des Pyrénées-Atlantiques 64 avenue Jean Biray 64058 Pau Cedex 9 05 59 11 40 72 _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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