[Ubuntu] GRASS and laz lidar files.

[Howard Butler]

It's a license issue for Debian which prevents it from being packaged as part of DebianGIS and friends. From a practical standpoint, the original author of FastAC is indifferent  and somewhat non-responsive on the topic.

Another option for PDAL is to use Docker. See http://www.pdal.io/quickstart.html for how to get going on Windows. 

Howard


> On Oct 19, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
> 
> Ohhhh -  Thanks for letting me know. Didn't know it was a license issue.
> 
> 
> On Oct 19, 2016 2:54 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 08:31 PM, Randal Hale wrote:
> > I tried to import a .laz file and through a series of learning
> > experiences - I can't. I jumped over to OSGEO4W and I can import it. It
> > seems that version (7.0.5) has been compiled with laz support.
> >
> > Or I could be crazy.....Is there any way to get Grass 7.0.5 on ubuntu
> > with laz support? Besides compiling it (which I might try later for fun
> > and learning).
> 
> Probably not if LASzip support in libLAS is required for LAZ support.
> 
> LASzip is not redistributable because it contains code from the FastAC
> codec which doesn't allow modification, which is incompatible with the
> LGPL license of LASzip.
> 
> See https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1341#comment:2 and the links
> therein.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 
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