Paolo, Thanks for the clarification, I'll read up on Python, Sextante, and QGIS internals.
Best regards, Sjur :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini > Sent: 2. oktober 2012 17:05 > To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Announcing ENKI (Was: Hydrological toolbox) > > Il 02/10/2012 17:02, Sjur Kolberg ha scritto: > > Paolo, > > > > Sure QGIS could do the visualisation, probably even by function calls with > data in memory, not having to export GIS data sets to disk for every time > step. > > > > But Statkraft released ENKI under LGPL for a reason. Linking ENKI too > closely with GPL QGIS will make ENKI unavailable for the commercial software > sector. That would be bad news for the hydropower industry I hope will > continue supporting ENKI development. From what I see now, there will still be > a need to maintain ENKI as a standalone program, in addition to making the > EnkiAPI core available for a QGIS plugin. > > I understand this very well, and that's where sextante comes in handy: no > linking there, it's just python (sextante) calling the executable. > So, no prolem in keeping it LGPL. > Of course, if one needs an LGPL or proprietary visualizator, that's a > different story, but should be mainly a packaging problem (keeping the GUI and > the backend separated). > Hope this helps. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia > www.faunalia.eu > Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: > http://www.faunalia.it/calendario > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer