[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ecw problems

[Nathan Woodrow]

It seems we are allowed to ship the ecw read-only SDK on windows:

"For avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not permit You to (a) use the
ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK
Desktop Read-Only to create or distribute Server Applications or SDKs; (b)
use the ERDAS ECW/JP2
SDK Desktop Read-Only to create Libraries; or (c) distribute header files
or .lib Library files included in
the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only. You _may_ distribute with your End
Application any
dynamically loadable object Libraries (.dll files) that are included in the
“redistributables” directory of
the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only, and are used by your End
Application.
"
I suggest that we do this. ecw is a pretty popular format and it doesn't
look good on us to tell people to go to the ERDAS site to download
something that may or may not work if ERDAS change the version under us.

- Nathan


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Giovanni Manghi
<giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > I guess this problem is only in Windows version.
> >
> > QGIS Ubuntu and Mac OS X have ecw libraries available in packages, AFAIK.
>
> the libraries for Linux/OsX are the old ones, from ER-Mapper. That SDK
> has a different license that should allow redistribution.
>
> cheers
>
> -- Giovanni --
>
>
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