[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] export in KML

[Volker Fröhlich]

Well, I'm not certain, libkml will help. It was only suggested. I also don't 
know if that is really a bug. I suppose they just made it that way.

Fedora is rather strict on license issues. Libkml includes a third party 
directory which is tedious to get rid of in the Makefile. These are the trouble 
makers for Fedora. They may have good licenses. Yes, it's a packager's problem 
-- nothing else. But this is one of the reasons, we didn't try yet.

Volker

Am Mittwoch 22 September 2010, 14:28:58 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> Il 21/09/2010 23:27, Volker Fröhlich ha scritto:
> > I wrote to the GDAL ML (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2010-
> > August/025800.html), but the results are a bit unclear:
> > 
> > Whilst one argued, KML would not map well to OGR, one suggested it might
> > be the driver. We planned to compile GDAL with libkml to see if it would
> > change the situation. That sadly didn't come into existence in Fedora,
> > because our libkml was outdated and there was also a license issue.
> > GDAL's packager was busy as well -- so no results from our side yet.
> 
> Hi Volker.
> Thanks for helping me to understand. So if I understand it correctly, the
> internal GDAL KML writer is buggy, and should better be replaced by
> libkml. What are the licencing issues? AFAIK libkml is BSD, more or less
> like GDAL.
> If this is so, the issue is mainly a packager one, am I wrong?
> All the best.