[OSGeo-Standards] Please review: Open Letter asking to avoid format fragmentation in LiDAR standards

[Martin Isenburg]

Hello Cameron,

This is the very first time (since LASzip's LGPL release in late 2010) that
someone brings a possible issue with a license incompatibility between LGPL
and FastAC to our attention. You can rest assured that this was absolutely
*NOT* ESRI's reason for creating the closed "LAZ clone" ...

In fact, I would not be surprised in the least if the ESRI implementation
is also based on that very same FastAC code,  given the nearly identical
performance of LAZ and zLAS and the lack of other similar efficient
artithmetic coding implementations ...

Regards,

Martin @rapidlasso
 On Apr 12, 2015 4:39 PM, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Martin Isenburg, I see you have just joined this OSGeo standards list.
> You might want to weigh in on this thread.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <
> sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 04/11/2015 02:59 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>> > Sorry Sebastiaan to have caused you writing this lenghy explanation
>> whereas I
>> > read too fast your initial message. Se my second message in the thread.
>>
>> No problem, it's good to have this in writing, the FastAC issue is not
>> very well documented, my lengthy message should resolve that.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
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