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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Great. I am happy to put their copyright details in a README
accompanying QGIS and installed into c:\program files\Quantum
GIS\README. Could you find out what they want in there?

I guess you wrote a similar letter to Erdas (for ecw)?

Regards

I will update the win packages with MrSid this weekend (or try to anyway).

Regards

Tim

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Does this help?
> All the best.
>
> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> 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
>>>
>>> ------ End of Forwarded Message
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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