[Ubuntu] File geodatabase API

[Johan Van de Wauw]

The license [0] certainly does not adhere to the DFSG [1] or ubuntu
licensing standards[2] and therefore the API can not be included with
the gdal package.
I've not read the license in detail, but perhaps an add-on package is
a possibility, but bear in mind that creating and supporting packages
with non-free licenses is usually hard, and eg fixing known bugs
(including security errors) does not seem to be allowed (see 4.1c in
[0]).


Johan

[0] http://resources.arcgis.com/node/agreement/3193
[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing



On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Allred, Brady
<brady.allred at okstate.edu> wrote:
> Is (will?) the ESRI file geodatabase API be included with the gdal 1.9 package? There appears to be a little ambiguity with the license, but it apparently can be redistributed; see http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18692/can-esris-file-geodatabase-api-be-redistributed  It would be nice to access file geodatabases with prebuilt binaries.
>
> Thanks,
>
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