It seems we are allowed to ship the ecw read-only SDK on windows:<div><br></div><div>"For avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not permit You to (a) use the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK<div>Desktop Read-Only to create or distribute Server Applications or SDKs; (b) use the ERDAS ECW/JP2</div>
<div>SDK Desktop Read-Only to create Libraries; or (c) distribute header files or .lib Library files included in</div><div>the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only. You _may_ distribute with your End Application any</div>
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dynamically loadable object Libraries (.dll files) that are included in the “redistributables” directory of</div><div>the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only, and are used by your End Application.</div><div>"</div>I suggest that we do this. ecw is a pretty popular format and it doesn't look good on us to tell people to go to the ERDAS site to download something that may or may not work if ERDAS change the version under us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Giovanni Manghi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giovanni.manghi@gmail.com">giovanni.manghi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> I guess this problem is only in Windows version.<br>
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> QGIS Ubuntu and Mac OS X have ecw libraries available in packages, AFAIK.<br>
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</div>the libraries for Linux/OsX are the old ones, from ER-Mapper. That SDK<br>
has a different license that should allow redistribution.<br>
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cheers<br>
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-- Giovanni --<br>
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