[gdal-dev] FLIF format?

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Sun Oct 4 12:18:06 PDT 2015


On 4 October 2015 at 00:07, Craig Bruce <csbruce at cubewerx.com> wrote:
> On 2015-10-02 19:19, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>
> Why yes :). Slashdot...
>
> The scuttlebutt on Slashdot was about how this format is D.O.A. because the
> reference library is GPLv3-only, which is incompatible with everything else.


They have a reason/plan for that:

"FLIF is currently licensed under the GNU GPL v3+. However, when the
project is more mature, we
(Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille, the primary authors of FLIF)
will want to release it under a more permissive license."

https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net


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