[gdal-dev] FLIF format?

Signell, Richard rsignell at usgs.gov
Mon Oct 5 04:54:36 PDT 2015


Check this commit 8 minutes ago:
https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/commit/0c27016a775b5f01f3feb901874a5a45ed9aab1a

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> On 4 October 2015 at 00:07, Craig Bruce <csbruce at cubewerx.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-02 19:19, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>>
>> Why yes :). Slashdot...
>>
>> The scuttlebutt on Slashdot was about how this format is D.O.A. because the
>> reference library is GPLv3-only, which is incompatible with everything else.
>
>
> They have a reason/plan for that:
>
> "FLIF is currently licensed under the GNU GPL v3+. However, when the
> project is more mature, we
> (Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille, the primary authors of FLIF)
> will want to release it under a more permissive license."
>
> https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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