[Qgis-user] Loading big images in QGIS: Erdas img vs. ecw vs. bigtiff

[Jacolin Yves]

Le Friday 28 March 2008 11:59:06 Oleg Gusev, vous avez écrit :
> Am Freitag 28 März 2008 11:28:00 schrieb Jacolin Yves:
> > the library can be used for file < 500 Mb with no fees. For bigger
> > files you have to buy a licence. This is in the licence file.
>
> I think this is not what ERMapper claims.
>
>  Oleg.
>
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> http://www.ermapper.com/NewsView.aspx?t=11&n=83
>
> “We are committed to supporting developers and open standards. We are
> putting our money where our mouth is.  Two of the licenses (an unlimited
> decompression/limited compression and an unlimited decompression/unlimited
> compression GPL style license) are completely free.  Only strictly
> commercial ventures who want unlimited compression in commercial products
> have to pay a once-off and royalty free payment for the SDK, and when they
> do they get the complete source code”, said Nixon.
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Hi,

You link come from  a NEWS page (not the licence) and in **2004**, my 
information come from here [1] and from the licence you have to read before 
downloading the SDK:

"1.9. NON-COMMERCIAL USE means use that is educational or strictly personal 
for research." 

Does the use of this SDK in QGIS could be state as a non-commercial use? I 
think it doesn't.

So, this is applied :
"2.2. Commercial Use.
[..] 
2.2.2. Subject to all other terms of this Agreement, including payment of a 
royalty, You are hereby granted a royalty-bearing, nonexclusive, worldwide 
license to use the ECW/JP2 CODEC SDK to create and distribute END 
APPLICATIONS that ENCODE for COMMERCIAL USES. The royalty rate is listed on a 
Purchase Order that is attached to this License Agreement and that forms a 
part of this Agreement.

ABSENT PAYMENT OF A ROYALTY AND YOUR CONTINUING ADHERENCE TO THE TERMS OF THIS 
AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT LICENSED TO USE THE ECW/JP2 CODEC SDK TO ENCODE FILES 
FOR COMMERCIAL USES."

You have to pay fees (see link [1]).

Y.
[1] http://www.ermapper.com/ProductView.aspx?t=231
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