[fdo-internals] RE: Create a branch for GDAL 1.9 upgrade

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Trevor Wekel
<trevor_wekel at otxsystems.com> wrote:
> Do you know if ECW, MrSID, JPEG 2000 and Oracle Geo Raster are being worked on for Linux?  The Enterprise Linux GIS link wasn't too promising http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS#Formats_supported_by_GDAL

Trevor,

I know that there are folks who are successfully building and using
ECW, MrSID, JPEG2000
and Oracle GeoRaster support on Linux.  But to the best of my
knowledge this is being done
individual by individual rather than building sharable plugins.
Partly this is because of
the variety of Linux versions and partly it is an issue with licensing
constraints on
most of the above.

Best regards,

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