[GRASS-dev] raster engine in grass7

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > Simply copying the code from the existing libraries would place
> > it under the GPL. It would be better to have new code written
> > from scratch and placed under GDAL's MIT-style licence.
> 
> ... it could start with copying code from the last public domain
> release, grass 4.3. 

The 4.3 code doesn't support floating-point, nulls, files >2GiB,
zlib-compressed integer maps, maybe some other stuff.

Also, you'd need to separate the resampling from the actual I/O.

Writing completely new code would probably take less effort.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>