[GRASS-dev] ecw, mrsid license (in)compatibility [was: text interface for GRASS70]

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

   >Hamish:
>> > ps- re. r45719 "winGRASS: include some gdal plugins", can you
>> > confirm that these plugins are license compatible? (may have
>> > been left out on purpose)
>Martin: 
>> currently it's gdal-ecw and gdal-mrsid.
>
>AFAIU those are supplied as plugins and not built into the main
>GDAL exactly because they are incompatible with the GPL and may
>not be shipped with the likes of GRASS.
>
>End users are free to add in them as they like, but then they
>too lose the right to redistribute the combined work to others.

maybe we can add a hint in the wingrass-installer, that there are only licence
compatiple gdal/ogr-formats within the shipped gdal-version and other plugins for like ecw, mrsid 
and maybe others can be downloaded from http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/gdal/ ?

because ecw, mrsid etc. are very wide used formats ....

Helmut

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