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On 16/11/2012 12:52, Ramon Andiñach
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On 16/11/2012, at 06:52 , Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:Hi Regis,On Thu, 15. Nov 2012 at 12:52:03 -0800, haubourg wrote:Jürgen E. Fischer wroteBTW ECW support was meanwhile dropped in osgeo4w (after the GDAL update to 1.9.2) and also will lack in the next package. Neither Frank nor I were able to mobilize enough energy to jump though all the hoops they've put in front of their SDK download. IIRC also the licensing is somewhat strange to as it allows client, but forbids server use and the user has to acknowledge it - so we would even have to add own hoops...Ah. Bummer. I suppose that was coming. Yes, bummer indeed. Loosing support for those formats will, I think, be serious hurdle in the further adoption of QGIS. Even though we don't like the licensing, ecw and MrSid have become defacto standards, with no replacement (until jpeg2000 stabilizes). Not meaning any criticism (it's not a particularly nice licence and I understand), just looking for a bit more clarity. My feelings exactly. I certainly appreciate all the effort put in by Jurgen, Frank and others to get the gdal-ecw library into OSGeo4W in the past. If there's no way in 2.0 to allow users to download the ECW-SDK, agreeing to the license, then add some dll's as was in the past to add support for those formats, then it should be stated up front - no ecw. Thanks, Micha -ramon. (Wondering if should I be signing up to one of the OSGeo lists and asking this there?) _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. -- Micha Silver GIS Consulting 052-3665918 http://www.surfaces.co.il |
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