[Qgis-developer] Re: import proprietary code inside a python plugin

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Tue Mar 27 05:21:51 EDT 2012


Hi Giovanni,

On Tue, 27. Mar 2012 at 09:51:52 +0200, G. Allegri wrote:
>    Ops. How QGis can use GDAL which uses ECW?!
>    1 - GDAL is LGPL

I think I saw that a couple of time in this thread already. GDAL is not LGPL,
it is X/MIT.  More relaxed - you can do just about anything with it - including
using it in closed proprietary stuff like ArcGIS.


Jürgen

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