[Gdal-dev] Licensing issue with geodata embedded in gdal.

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:43:08PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2006-August/001179.html
> >
> >It's questionable if this issue is a non-issue for Debian. We distribute
> >gdal in main and this is indeed a use limitation for our users.
> >Moving only data in non-free could be an option (I don't know how much
> >complicated). But solving the question at upstream level would be more 
> >nice.
> 
> Francesco,
> 
> That url doesn't resolve for me. Note there are quite a few potential
> freeness issues identified in GDAL as part of the review at:
> 
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GDAL_Provenance_Review
> 
> It is my intention to address them all in the coming months as one
> precondition of GDAL passing OSGeo incubation.  However, I do feel they
> are all "low risk", so if it is possible to take no action for a little
> while, there is hope that we might have the issues resolved in time for a
> 1.4.0 release.
> 

Yep, people yet reported that, I hope it will be solved in time for
Etch... 

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Francesco P. Lovergine