[Qgis-user] QGIS and ECW and MrSid formats
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it
Sun Nov 9 03:23:06 PST 2008
Marco Pasetti ha scritto:
> I think the problem doesn't rely on what the dev-community want to do,
> but on what we can do. MrSID and ECW licenses seem to be incompatible
> with the GPL.
> I'm not a license expert, so I cannot judge on that, but some time ago I
> deeply discussed with license experts about that, and their response was
> that "MrSID and ECW licenses are NOT GPL compliant".
I know other desktop packages include such drivers (gvSIG, AFAIK), so it
might be possible also for us.
Anyone willing to investigate?
pc
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