[Gdal-dev] MrSID Support

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Thu Aug 19 15:33:19 EDT 2004


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Andrey Kiselev wrote:

> 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.

Support it for people who built it themselves.




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