[Gdal-dev] ECW JPEG 2000 SDK v3.1 - issues and clarification

[Steve Halasz]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:08 +0800, Tom Lynch wrote:
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> There are three license agreements available for the SDK; free, public
> and commercial.  The licensing information is included with the SDK
> distributions and should be read carefully.  The exact terms of the
> license are under review and may be changing soon (but if there is a
> change, it will almost certainly be in the form of a removal of IP
> restrictions, rather than an increase of same).

Tom,

The ECW SDK works very well and I'm grateful to ermapper for providing
it under the public license. I had hoped to package it for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution where it would be useful with GDAL, QGIS and
other GIS software. But there were a few restrictions in the license
that do not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1]. These are
listed in a post to the Debian legal mailing list[2]. I would appreciate
your consideration of these issues when reviewing the terms of the
public license.

Thanks very much!

Steve

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-dfsg
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/02/msg00061.html