[Freegis-list] ECW

[Bernhard Reiter]

Paul,

I've rechecked the license of the ER mapper SDKs in one case.
Downloading the ECWSDK245_Solaris.tar.gz
I've learned that it does not come with full source code
and the license.txt does not grant the freedoms to use, study,
adapt, copy and publish the software. E.g.:

	For conditions, requirements and fees associated 
	with redistribution, installation or use in "Server Products" or
	"SDK Products" contact Earth Resource Mapping.

It is non-free software coming with a restricted gratis license.
I suspect the other ER mapper downloads to also be proprietory.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
	Bernhard


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:20:28PM +0900, Paul Selormey wrote:
> The SDK is free, there is an ActiveX and Java versions too. 
> Check the developer page - Products/SDKs. 
> The only restriction is you can write up to 500 MB of image. There is no
> stated restriction to read size of the image.
> It is the same library being used in GDAL currently.

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