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

[Alex Mandel]

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