[Gdal-dev] MrSID v6 update

[Howard Butler]

William,

Definitely not open source, but the SDK libs are now 
redistributeable.  Michael Gerlek channeled the lawyers for Frank and 
I to share our concerns about our ability to redistribute things. 
See the REDISTRIBUTE.txt document for a synopsis of what is required 
(you can't distribute the 3rd_party stuff, need to credit LizardTech, 
and you need to carry their EULA around for that portion of the 
software).  These restrictions don't seem as onerous as they once 
were, and I thank the LizardTech folks for working the issues out. 
Additionally, the SDK can now be redistributed in my "buildkit" for 
Windows, which makes me and the few folks (MS4W) using it to make 
MapServer/GDAL builds very happy.

I was probably the one complaining the loudest about gcc 4 on OSX, 
and helped test it out on both the PowerPC and intelimac before 
release (against a CVS GDAL of about 2 weeks ago).  I made a 
suggestion of having a full Framework build of the SDK in the future, 
and I was told they'd look into it.

Hopefully someday the MrSID DSDK will be open source and we'll be 
able to recompile it wherever we need it (all those arcane 
architectures like IA64, linux on sparc, etc aren't covered 
currently).  Nonetheless, I see v6 of the MrSID SDK as a step forward.

Howard

At 2:40 PM -0500 6/24/06, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>Looks like the MrSID DSDK v6 has finally been released.  Good news 
>for Mac OS X users - it's finally comptible with GCC 4 on Tiger, AND 
>is universal!
>
>I made a GDAL plugin binary for Mac OS X to install on top of my GIS 
>Libs package.  Since LizardTech still hasn't followed ERMapper's 
>example and made their license explicitly open-source compatible, 
>and it's still questionable whether it is or not, the plugin is a 
>separate download from the GIS Libs package.
>
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