<br><tt><font size=2>> ... I believe it is best<br>
> for users of the ECW SDK to get it from ERMapper/Leica/Erdas directly,
and<br>
> to agree to their click through license.<br>
</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>Just for the case anybody else will stumble about
this:</font></tt>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">ERMapper offers two different downloads:
"</font><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('dgDownloads$_ctl2$lbDownload','')"><font size=2 face="Arial">Image
Compression SDK 3.3</font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">" and </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">"</font><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('dgDownloads$_ctl3$lbDownload','')"><font size=2 face="Arial">Image
Compression SDK Source Code 3.3</font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">".
The prebuild SDK does not contain libecwj2.*. It's</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">only made with the Source-distribution.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Anyway. I'm fine ...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Benedikt</font>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> schrieb
am 25.04.2008 15:13:01:<br>
<br>
> umn-ms@hydrotec.de wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > > Well, obviously I need a "libecwj2.lib".<br>
> > > But I'm still confused, where/how to get this.<br>
> > > Do I have to compile the ECW-SDK on my own?<br>
> > <br>
> > Finally I succeed.<br>
> > <br>
> > I did compile the ECW-SDK.<br>
> > And for this one I needed "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows
Server <br>
> > 2003 R2" ...<br>
> > <br>
> > I don't know about the legal issues. Would it be possible to
distribute <br>
> > libecwj2.lib<br>
> > in http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.5/gdalwin32ecw150.zip?<br>
> > <br>
> > Ain't easy<br>
> > Benedikt<br>
> <br>
> Benedikt,<br>
> <br>
> I'm quite leery of distributing ecw sdk libraries under the auspices
of<br>
> OSGeo. In order to keep things legally legitimate I believe
it is best<br>
> for users of the ECW SDK to get it from ERMapper/Leica/Erdas directly,
and<br>
> to agree to their click through license.<br>
> <br>
> If I agree to their click through license, then upload it to<br>
> download.osgeo.org for distributions, and someone who grabs it violates<br>
> the license it would be on my head (at least to some extent) since
I made<br>
> no reasonable effort to get them to agree to the requirements that
I am<br>
> bound to enforce.<br>
> <br>
> I have spoken to folks at ERMapper/Leica/Erdas about this recently,
and they<br>
> are reviewing licensing terms, and have expressed a willingness to
help<br>
> vette techniques for including ECW support in OSGeo4W. But our
basic<br>
> conclusion in that discussion was that for folks building ECW support
into<br>
> GDAL themselves, they really ought to be going to ERMapper/Leica/Erdas
for<br>
> the SDK so they are the one directly bound by the click-through.<br>
> <br>
> Doesn't all this make real open source look so much more pleasant!<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> -- <br>
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com<br>
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam<br>
> and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo,
http://osgeo.org<br>
> <br>
</font></tt>