[Qgis-developer] Announcing ENKI (Was: Hydrological toolbox)

[Sjur Kolberg]

Paolo,

Thanks for the clarification, I'll read up on Python, Sextante, and QGIS internals.

Best regards, Sjur  :-)


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> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
> Sent: 2. oktober 2012 17:05
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> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Announcing ENKI (Was: Hydrological toolbox)
> 
> Il 02/10/2012 17:02, Sjur Kolberg ha scritto:
> > Paolo,
> >
> > Sure QGIS could do the visualisation, probably even by function calls with
> data in memory, not having to export GIS data sets to disk for every time
> step.
> >
> > But Statkraft released ENKI under LGPL for a reason. Linking ENKI too
> closely with GPL QGIS will make ENKI unavailable for the commercial software
> sector. That would be bad news for the hydropower industry I hope will
> continue supporting ENKI development. From what I see now, there will still be
> a need to maintain ENKI as a standalone program, in addition to making the
> EnkiAPI core available for a QGIS plugin.
> 
> I understand this very well, and that's where sextante comes in handy: no
> linking there, it's just python (sextante) calling the executable.
> So, no prolem in keeping it LGPL.
> Of course, if one needs an LGPL or proprietary visualizator, that's a
> different story, but should be mainly a packaging problem (keeping the GUI and
> the backend separated).
> Hope this helps.
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