Folks, When Andrew first mentioned RFC 34 I skimmed it and was a bit surprised it existed though perhaps it seemed a wee bit familiar. Now that Even mentions it was not ever implemented I see that *I* proposed it and presumably did not actually follow up on implementing it or getting it adopted. It still seems like a vaguely good idea, but also apparently one without a compelling need since it has not been followed up on.
However, it does not solve the build-time problem posed by Greg. I think the approach that inclusion of reciprocally licensed or proprietary drivers requiring explicit inclusion at configure time is a reasonable approach to avoid accidental license violations by packagers. Best regards, Frank On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:31 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > Hi, > > https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc34_license_policy.html > > As indicated in the top of the RFC, its status is "development" (draft), > which here means stalled/non-adopted given that it was proposed long > time ago. So there's no runtime mechanism to control license compatibility. > > > > But, I'm worried about something different. As a packager, I'd like to > > know that unless I take the affirmative step of passing --enable-foo, > > for any GPLish or proprietary foo, I won't end up with a gdal build > > linked with foo just because it happened to be present in my build > > environment. > > This should normally be the case. One of the few GPL dependencies is > Poppler and must be explicitly enabled with --with-poppler . Similarly > with MySQL. All proprietary dependencies need also to be explicitly > enabled AFAIK (you actually need to point to their SDK). > > GEOS (LGPL) is enabled by default is found. > > Even > > -- > > http://www.spatialys.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | +1 650-701-7823 and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer
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