Ops. How QGis can use GDAL which uses ECW?!<div><br></div><div>1 - GDAL is LGPL</div><div>2 - it's imported by QGis, so it doesn't use QGis but is used by...</div><div>3 - osgeo4w bundles gdal-ecw DLL</div><div><br>
</div><div>giovanni</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/27 Noli Sicad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nsicad@gmail.com">nsicad@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
QGis (GPL) + GPL + LGPL + proprietary = illegal.<br>
<br>
Any proprietary code added to GPL is illegal. Unless they re license<br>
the code as LGPL.<br>
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On 3/27/12, Paolo Corti <<a href="mailto:pcorti@gmail.com">pcorti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, G. Allegri <<a href="mailto:giohappy@gmail.com">giohappy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I premit that I've already chosen a solution to bypass these issues: one,<br>
>> common library and two plugins, one for qgis and one for arcpy. The<br>
>> plugins<br>
>> will interact through pickling, sharing a common data structure from the<br>
>> common library. This is the easiest solution for me to deploy (no servers<br>
>> as<br>
>> with iPython or RabbitMQ).<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Hi Giovanni<br>
> as others suggested, you can not use arcpy for<br>
> writing a QGIS plugin, if you are willing to deploy it as open source<br>
> (ie it is not for your company internal use). QGIS plugins must be<br>
> released as GPL.<br>
> Are you considering to release your solution for the community? If not<br>
> - as I think - you do not need to bother ;)<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> fTool + GDAL python bindings + ECW<br>
>><br>
><br>
> same here, if you are willing to open your code to the community.<br>
> For the same reason GDAL packages are not built with ecw support (same<br>
> for file gdb, arcsde ecc ecc), but you must compile it for yourself if<br>
> you need it.<br>
><br>
> ciao<br>
> p<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Paolo Corti<br>
> Geospatial software developer<br>
> web: <a href="http://www.paolocorti.net" target="_blank">http://www.paolocorti.net</a><br>
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