Then can GDAL be disabled, without QGIS breaking completely? When I tried deleting (renaming actually) szip.dll, qgis errored-out right at startup.
Thanks! On 02/03/2014 09:15 AM, Moriarty, Mark F wrote: > Does QGIS have any license agreement related to SZIP use? > > I'd like to use QGIS on a project, but we're stuck on whether/how the > szip.dll is licensed for use. > > For example HDF specifically has a license page asserting permission to use > szip in their distribution, so long as it is used within the context of their > overall app. For a commercial firm, the permission is just to decode, not to > encode, but that is fine. > > I tried just deleting/renaming the szip.dll, since we do not actually need > the functionality for our use, but it appears to be tightly bound to the > build - qgis errors-out if it does not detect a proper, functioning, szip.dll > on startup. > > If there isn't a license statement from the intellectual property owner > allowing its use/distribution to decode with qgis, is it possible to include > a user-controllable switch to allow not including it, or to perhaps include a > true GPL zip package, albeit losing the lossless functionality? > > Thanks. > > Mark > Are you sure this is a QGIS question and not a GDAL question? I believe that is part of the GDAL method for reading HDF files. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
