[Gdal-dev] MrSID Support

Andrey Kiselev dron at ak4719.spb.edu
Thu Aug 19 15:30:12 EDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:10:30PM -0500, David W. Lowther wrote:
> Since Lizardtech has now made the decode functionality free
> (http://developer.lizardtech.com/data/) would it be possible to
> include MrSID support by default in future binary builds of GDAL?

I have reread the DSDK license and it seems that we can distribute
precompiled binaries after adding LizardTech copyrights and complete
EULA from the Appendix C. The latter seems to be a big overhead for
GDAL, personally I'd like to avoid that.

						Andrey

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