Hi Nathan, On Fri, 02. Dec 2011 at 22:42:22 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > It seems we are allowed to ship the ecw read-only SDK on windows: > "For avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not permit You to (a) use the > ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK > Desktop Read-Only to create or distribute Server Applications or SDKs;
Is GDAL a SDK? Do we need to take care not to ship it's libraries and header files? And to ship QGIS mapserver in a separate package as it's a server application - which isn't allowed to have ECW support? > (b) use the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only to create Libraries; Is GDAL a library? > I suggest that we do this. ecw is a pretty popular format and it doesn't look > good on us to tell people to go to the ERDAS site to download something that > may or may not work if ERDAS change the version under us. Fortunately I can happily live without it. So it's cheap for me to say, that I wouldn't like to jump to some extra packaging hoops just for some non-free format. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
