[gdal-dev] Fork Yeah!

[Damian Dixon]

Hi Aaron,

The use of AGPL means that your OpenJPEG fork will not be used for
commercial projects and any enhancements you make will not make there way
into OpenJPEG.

You may have a good reason for choosing this licence and as such it is your
choice.

Either way good luck.

Regards
Damian

On 3 February 2016 at 19:28, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear GDAL Developers,
>
> I am developing a new open source JPEG 2000 toolkit, based on OpenJPEG.
>
> It is a drop-in replacement for OpenJPEG, but features:
>
> - fast precinct-level decode
> - lower memory usage
> - better performance - currently it is roughly 1/3 the perf of Kakadu,
> (tested on windows), and I am hoping to get it down to around 1/2
>
> I was originally hoping to merge these changes into OpenJPEG. For a number
> of reasons, I decided to start a new project instead.  One of my main
> motivations is the fact that  OpenJPEG is a reference implementation,
> designed for correctness and portability. My main interest is performance.
>
> I have ported the code to C++14, so developers get access to all of the
> modern C++ goodness such as class hierarchies, lambdas, threading library,
> exceptions, standard template library, etc.
>
> Gone is support for older compilers, including VS 2010.
>
> The code is licensed under the AGPL, to ensure that all code modifications
> get contributed back to the community.
>
> It you find this useful, please visit
>
> https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/ronin
>
> For those who need a more permissive license, or who prefer using the
> reference implementation, there is always good old OpenJPEG.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Aaron
>
>
>
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