Hi melissa ! On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Melissa Linkert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > >> What I still do not really understand is that after a git clone of >> bioformat I can see I am getting the non-free >> ./jar/clibwrapper_jiio.jar; but I cannot find the shared lib anywhere. >> Should use download/install it separately ? > > The shared library is not required by Bio-Formats, and in fact having it > does not even improve functionality. So it is expected that the user > will download and install it themselves, if they feel that they need it.
Ah ! That is fantastic to know. So basically Bio-Formats manage to get a true BSD (reduced) jai-imageio-core lib working. The issue here is that debian/libjai-image-io is being used as a shared .jar for any project. Originally I believe the goal was to support dcm4che in debian. For DICOM, jai-imageio-core is handy since it provide a JPEG-LS codec. It seems as if you guys in the biological field do not use JPEG-LS compression and could safely get rid of the nasty (non-BSD) clib_jiio shared libs. I'll resume -again- my work on bio-formats and used the convenient (reduced but BSD) jai-imageio-core libs shipped with bio-formats, this way bioformats will enter debian/main instead of non-free. Thanks for the info ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+7wUsxYkQgpQSDxPaa+Xcs=dssc8d97drgvv2tl9hc2rjb...@mail.gmail.com
