[Qgis-developer] QGIS 1.0.0 - Call for packaging

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Fri Dec 26 15:05:09 EST 2008


William Kyngesburye ha scritto:
> 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.

Thanks William for clarifying this.
Marco, does this help?
All the best.
pc
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