[Qgis-developer] QGIS 1.0.0 - Call for packaging

[William Kyngesburye]

On Dec 26, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> William Kyngesburye ha scritto:
>
>> For my OSX GDAL framework, I use separate downloads.  I thought it
>> seemed clear that binary distribution with open source software was  
>> OK,
>> but so many others are not so sure that I decided to play it safe.
>
> Hi William,
> thanks for your feedback. Perhaps I missed your point, but I do not  
> see
> how safer it would be to distribute the non-free drivers as separate
> plugins. If the licence does not allow redistribution, then it makes  
> no
> difference, or?
> All the best.
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc *


I'm quite sure they allow distribution of binaries.  Though with ECW  
you may need to use an older source distribution (I'm using  
v3.3-2006-09-06) - recent distributions changed the license to be more  
restrictive (especially after Leica got ahold of it), I think, I  
haven't looked closely at them.

And it looks like they allow binary distribution as a part of open  
source software.

I think the main question is license compatibility, especially with  
the GPL.  They're probably not (I'm no expert on the GPL), though they  
try to appear to be.  Their licenses may work with GDAL, but not with  
Qgis or GRASS.

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