[Qgis-user] ECW file cannot open in QGIS 2.4

[Nathan Woodrow]

We went though it with the ERDAS guys and they said its fine to
redistribute.

I never thought there was a issue on Ubuntu.  I thought we uploaded the
built package ourself.

Nathan
On Jul 12, 2014 2:52 PM, "Alex Mandel" <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> Well it's more of a 1/2 truth. You are correct that they are likely
> distributable (I'm more familiar with MrSID issues). However, not in a
> mainstream Debian or Ubuntu repository where it's license would prohibit
> it from being uploaded. It may be a candidate for a non-free repo but
> that would likely require the company behind ECW to put it there.
>
> I suppose the qgis.org repo could potentially keep a copy but that would
> require gdal to be built by the qgis team for this purpose.
>
> Do you know if the instructions on how to build are still correct,
> that's really the important part of this.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
> On 07/11/2014 09:33 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> > The information in that post is incorrect.  You are allowed to
> redistribute
> > them. They are not open source but there is no desktop restriction on the
> > libraries.
> > On Jul 12, 2014 2:31 PM, "Alex Mandel" <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/11/2014 09:21 PM, zehari wrote:
> >>> Dear All,
> >>> I have installed a new ubuntu 14:04 by removing ubuntu 13:10. Then, I
> >>> installed QGIS2.4 program, but can no longer open ECW files, while the
> >>> previous version is still functioning.
> >>> Can anyone help me, why is this happening?
> >>> For his help I would like to thank.
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>>
> >>> Zehari
> >>>
> >>
> >> GDAL/OGR on Ubuntu does not support ECW by default due to licensing
> >> restrictions. You have to rebuild GDAL/OGR with ECW support.
> >>
> >>
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27247/ecw-for-qgis-1-8-in-ubuntu-12-04/27398#27398
> >>
> >> Once you do that QGIS will be able to read ECW.
> >> I'm not sure how you got this to work previously without rebuilding
> GDAL.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
>
>
>
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