[gdal-dev] New JPEG 2000 Driver

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

When Andrew first mentioned RFC 34 I skimmed it and was a bit surprised it
existed though perhaps it seemed a wee bit familiar.  Now that Even
mentions it was not ever implemented I see that *I* proposed it and
presumably did not actually follow up on implementing it or getting it
adopted.   It still seems like a vaguely good idea, but also apparently one
without a compelling need since it has not been followed up on.

However, it does not solve the build-time problem posed by Greg.  I think
the approach that inclusion of reciprocally licensed or proprietary drivers
requiring explicit inclusion at configure time is a reasonable approach to
avoid accidental license violations by packagers.

Best regards,
Frank



On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:31 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> > https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc34_license_policy.html
>
> As indicated in the top of the RFC, its status is "development" (draft),
> which here means stalled/non-adopted given that it was proposed long
> time ago. So there's no runtime mechanism to control license compatibility.
>
>
> > But, I'm worried about something different.  As a packager, I'd like to
> > know that unless I take the affirmative step of passing --enable-foo,
> > for any GPLish or proprietary foo, I won't end up with a gdal build
> > linked with foo just because it happened to be present in my build
> > environment.
>
> This should normally be the case. One of the few GPL dependencies is
> Poppler and must be explicitly enabled with --with-poppler . Similarly
> with MySQL. All proprietary dependencies need also to be explicitly
> enabled AFAIK (you actually need to point to their SDK).
>
> GEOS (LGPL) is enabled by default is found.
>
> Even
>
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