[Qgis-psc] [Fwd: FW: MrSid licence]

[Paolo Cavallini]

Does this help?
All the best.

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Oggetto: FW: MrSid licence
Data: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:53:11 -0700
Da: Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at lizardtech.com>
A: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>

Hi, Paolo:

Yes, you are allowed to redistribute our Decode SDK as compiled within
your application.  Over the past couple years we've been modifying our
license to make it as friendly as possible for use within the OSGeo
stack, e.g. GDAL and MapServer.

You should be aware of two things:

* we require you to put a copyright notice in the About box, README, or
similar location (license sections 1.3(a) and 2.2); this is no different
than requirements for many other 3rd party libraries (open source or not)

* YOUR inclusion of OUR software in a GPL package does not make OUR
software subject to the GPL (license section 1.3(b)); this is obvious,
maybe, but our license tries to make this very explicit just so everyone
is clear

If you have any other questions, feel free to email me.

Thanks --

-mpg

-------------------
Michael P. Gerlek
mpg at lizardtech.com
Engineering Manager
LizardTech, a Celertem company
Seattle, Washington



>> From: Paolo Cavallini [mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it]
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:28 AM
>> To: Justyna Bednarski
>> Subject: MrSid licence
>> 
>> Dear Sir,
>> we are producing an open source desktop GIS, called QuantumGIS
>> (http://qgis.org/), licensed under the General Public Licence (GPL:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL). We would like to distribute it
>> with MrSid support, but it is unclear to us whether the MrSid licence
>> willallow this.
>> We would greatly appreciate if you could grant us explicit permission
> to
>> include your code into our distribution.
>> Thanking you in advance.
>> -- 
>> Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>> 
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>> 
> 


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Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc