> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:46:03 +0000 > From: Giovanni Manghi <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ecw problems > To: Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <1322829963.3342.41.camel@sibirica> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > This is very strange as a lot of other open source GIS programs ship > > the ecw libs with each release, uDig; MapServer; etc. Are they > > breaking the licences? > > I'm not sure if they break the license, on the other hand how they can > be open source if they include closed software? > > cheers > > -- Giovanni --
- Some of them (like uDig) are LGPL, not GPL. Does this make a difference here? - I'm guessing they probably don't "include" closed software, but are just _distributed_ with it. They are probably linked against GDAL (which has an MIT license), and distributed along with a GDAL plugin which is linked against the main GDAL library and the ECW libs. I don't think ECW support is normally built into the main GDAL library. I'm not sure what aspects of this are relevant ;) Alister
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