[Gdal-dev] MrSID Support

Andrey Kiselev dron at ak4719.spb.edu
Thu Aug 19 16:07:12 EDT 2004


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:33:19PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear 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.

But... MrSID DSDK is already supported by the GDAL for a while.

						Andrey

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