The license [0] certainly does not adhere to the DFSG [1] or ubuntu licensing standards[2] and therefore the API can not be included with the gdal package. I've not read the license in detail, but perhaps an add-on package is a possibility, but bear in mind that creating and supporting packages with non-free licenses is usually hard, and eg fixing known bugs (including security errors) does not seem to be allowed (see 4.1c in [0]).
Johan [0] http://resources.arcgis.com/node/agreement/3193 [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Allred, Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Is (will?) the ESRI file geodatabase API be included with the gdal 1.9 > package? There appears to be a little ambiguity with the license, but it > apparently can be redistributed; see > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18692/can-esris-file-geodatabase-api-be-redistributed > It would be nice to access file geodatabases with prebuilt binaries. > > Thanks, > > Brady_______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
