On 07.10.2011 15:18, Stephan Holl wrote: > Hello ede, > > edgar.sol...@web.de, [20111007 - 11:21:10] > >> First and foremost, there is _no_ license issue here. We have two >> licenses, to which terms we have to agree and act.
stephan, do you have any substantial proof that there is a licensing problem? > I could not find the place where I could get the SDK dlls (version > 3.3) for Download for free. It would be good if you could provide a > link where the files came from. they are extracted from the binary releases of gvsig http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.11/downloads several linux distros host the sdk 3.3 sources http://www.google.com/search?q=libecwj2-3.3-2006-09-06 > Current ERDAS-website does apparently does not host it (any more?). yes. i couldn't find it there either. > I would like to see the dlls excluded in the nightlies and provided in > a separate package if one likes to use them. how about simply excluding them from intevation nightly build? >Additionally, this version > only allows the compression and decompression of files <500MB. Who is > checking this with this binary build? How do you figure? Did you read the license? It states --> Use of the ECW JPEG 2000 SDK with Unlimited Decompressing and Unlimited Compression for applications licensed under a GNU General Public style license ("GPL") is governed by the "ECW JPEG 2000 SDK PUBLIC USE LICENSE AGREEMENT". <-- > > Looking at the GDAL/QGIS-folks the do not distribute any binadary-build > using ECW; however, building from source is surely available, but the > enduser must download an SDK - after aggreeing a licence term. right. because the versions after 3.3 restricted their licenses in this regard. gdal btw. still has builds that ship ecw 3.3 binaries. > > Again, I would strongly vote for excluding the ecw-binaries and adding > a hint to the enduser, that ECW-dlls are available and only need to be > placed at some place to make OJ happily using it though. i understand you vote for exclusion from all builds and a general separate package here. taking into account that i can invalidate all your issues above, what is the rationale for this? regards ede > > another 0.02¢. > > Best > > Stephan > > >> ECW SDK license (note: version 3.3): >> For everyone unsure i attached the license of the ecw code used to >> this email. Our use case is the first license in there: --> >> Use of the ECW JPEG 2000 SDK with Unlimited Decompressing and >> Unlimited Compression for applications licensed under a GNU General >> Public style license ("GPL") is governed by the "ECW JPEG 2000 SDK >> PUBLIC USE LICENSE AGREEMENT". <-- The only drawback would be some >> commercial restriction "selling,renting not allowed", but this >> shouldn't be our concern, because we do _nothing_ of that sort and >> anyone who wants to should make sure to oblige _all_ licenses. >> >> GPL2: >> Secondly there is the GPLv2, the oj license. Everybody can get a copy >> themselves. in a nutshell it protects every code based on gpl code by >> extending gpl to it. This actually does not prevent you to use >> libraries or other software with it. It "merely" insists on proper >> interfaces, which make sure that these are independent software >> parts. This can be problematic, because a lot of interfacing in some >> programming languages is done by definitions, which are done in >> source code themselves. So actually if a library would include this >> code, it would need to be gpl'd again. But this is not the case here. >> There is a clean separation of the source code and oj is merely using >> ecw routines, not the other way around. This is covered by the >> "plugin" definition. >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins >> >> in conclusion, no problem here. >> >> ..ede > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
