Alex Mandel wrote:
I wonder if we can create an archive like the ubuntu non-free and stick
a gdal-build in there with at least MrSID support, allowing people to
optionally replace the one on their system.
Alex:
Thanks for bringing up this suggestion again. Agus and I have bantered
back and forth on this question, and I think that the bottom line is we
need someone (that proverbial "someone") to make non-free packages of
gdal with support enabled for ecw and mrsid.
Their licensing permits using the libraries, just not distributing them.
So, while qgis.org cannot distribute a binary linked to ecw libs, a
private user *can* agree to their license and use them. I can't see any
difference between that and i.e. audio codecs.
<Adding the usual IANAL disclamer>
--
Micha
Not sure if this get's us out of the legal mess though.
Alex
Agustin Lobo wrote:
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