Ah, thats good news Paul. Back when I was using it (the ECW library or SDK) you got the C code under a restrictive license (fair enough) from ER Mapper. But they withdrew that and said it would be re-released as a Windows only precompiled module. No use to Linux user....
All a long time ago, glad the situation has improved. David On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 15:36 -0800, Paul Norman wrote: > > From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM > > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps > > > > Then the license holder withdrew the ecw plugin for GDAL... > > There's still an ECW plugin for GDAL. It requires the third-party > SDK and you'll have to compile gdal yourself, which is annoying. Creating > ECW files is what takes purchasing a license. If there's ECW files > where it would be beneficial to host them, I could do or someone else > could. > > We'd have to get confirmation that data source was happy with attribution > in accordance with ODbL sections 4.2 and 4.3 which are "keep intact any > copyright or Database Right notices" or "a notice associated with the > Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, > accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work > aware that Content was obtained from the [the datasource]" > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au