[gdal-dev] Fork Yeah!

[Aaron Boxer]

Hi Damian,



> 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.
>

Correct.

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

Yes.

>
> Either way good luck.
>


Thank you.


Cheers,
Aaron


>
>
> 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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