[Freegis-list] ECW

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:08:44PM -0500, Jason Fillman wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:55, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > I've rechecked the license of the ER mapper SDKs in one case.
> > Downloading the ECWSDK245_Solaris.tar.gz

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

> Hmm, that's rather annoying. Not to be "sneaky", but how hard would it
> be to reverse engineer the format? 

I don't know.


> and it seems to me that if you provide source that can be downloaded 
> for free, you can't really enforce any license that says no one 
> can study the code and make their own implementation, 
> as long as no original code is used. 

You could claim a copyright violation in this case which probably
would be nasty to fight.

Note that the archive above did not include the full source code.
Just examples code which I did'nt examine any further.

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