Le lundi 08 août 2011 16:09:18, Otto Dassau a écrit : > Am Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:29:33 +0200 > > schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>: > > Il 08/08/2011 15:07, Otto Dassau ha scritto: > > > I would like to add ECW support for GDAL in OpenSUSE packages and in > > > the internet, from what I found so far, it seems to be ok without any > > > license problems - is that correct? Can you help me here?
You might find it interesting to read this old thread : http://osgeo- org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/ECW-Licence-td2047065.html that particularly points to : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2005- August/001083.html In summary what I've understood is that none of the 3 options of the (old) licence that came with libecwj 3.3 can be considered as a free licence. For example the 1st one, the "ECW JPEG 2000 SDK PUBLIC USE LICENSE AGREEMENT" restricts what you can do with the source code : "You are not permitted to change the ECW file format.", which is incompatible with the principles of all free licences. You could perhaps build ECW support for GDAL as a GDAL plugin and put it in a "non-free" repository, if that notion exists for OpenSUSE. That's what the UbuntuGIS team has done for example. > > > > Hi Otto, > > a few years ago I had confirmation that the licence of ECW allowed > > redistribution, but I think in the meanwhile things have changed. > > Giovanni (cc:) has followed the question recently, better ask him. Also, > > I think we should discuss about this in the public ML. > > All the best. > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
