On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The inclusion of libgeotiff (which is included in debian gdal if > > I'm not wrong) in fedora extras is blocked by a licencing issue that > > may be relevant for debian. > > > > It seems like some data included in libgeotiff is covered by: > > http://www.epsg.org/CurrentDB.html#use > > > > with > > 3. The data may not be distributed for profit by any third party; > > > > completed by > > With regard to (3) above, the data may be included within proprietary > > applications distributed on a commercial basis when the commerciality > > is based on application functionality and not on a value ascribed to > > the freely-distributed EPSG dataset. > > > > This is relevant. I would move those data into a non-free package a part. > That would involve re-packaging the upstream tarball, of course.
That will be probably fixed by EPSG with re-licensing, by rumors... BTW, it involves gdal, proj and possibly others. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel