[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #996: Re: [Quantum GIS] #996: QGIS corrupts JPEG2000 colors

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#996: Re: [Quantum GIS] #996: QGIS corrupts JPEG2000 colors
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        Reporter:  coatman                           |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  defect                            |        Status:  reopened     
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.1
       Component:  Rasters                           |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:  kakadu raster
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  OS X         
        Must_fix:  No                                |   Status_info:  0            
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Comment (by Coatman):

 Please remember that the first several versions of GDAL that were
 released, properly displayed JPEG2000 images under Mac OS X, using BOTH
 Jasper and Kakadu.  I became interested in GDAL precisely because it
 properly displayed JPEG2000 images.  William Kyngesburye has said to me
 several times he does not accept money to do anything under any
 circumstances.

 There seems to be a strong bias here (that I do not understand) against
 Kakadu, even though the Kakadu executables have always been free to
 everyone, and free for all of these platforms: Windows, Linux, Solaris,
 and Mac OS X.  Professor Taubman offered the Kakadu source code for free
 to this project.  But even if that offer is rejected for a reason I do not
 understand, the cost of purchasing the Kakadu source code with a lifetime
 of free updates is less than the cost of buying one Photoshop upgrade,
 that contains executables, but no source code.  And I would pay for the
 cost, but it is free for this project.

 So, can we at least all agree to move forward now to make available a
 version of GDAL for Mac OS X that properly displays JPEG2000 images, using
 at least Jasper?  Surely no one objects to that.  But note that Jasper and
 GeoJasper were both been abandoned years ago by their authors, and the
 last time I compiled them I got more than 500 warnings.  Kakadu compiles
 without any warnings, for all platforms, so it may be easier, and faster
 to use.

 If no one will accept money for a GDAL compatible with Mac OS X, then I
 will have no choice but to abandon GDAL, withdraw my financial support,
 and give my money before the end of the year to ESRI.  I do not want to do
 that.  But before the end of the year, I need a GIS that displays JPEG2000
 images, which the initial versions of GDAL did.

 Please understand that I am trying to help, and just ask that a
 functionality that was in the first version of GDAL be restored to the
 current version.  I am not requesting a new feature that has never been
 used.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/996#comment:27>
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