Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2018-03-17 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 03/17/2018 05:32 PM, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi, > > 2018-03-17 17:25 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg : >> On 03/17/2018 05:21 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> Don't upload laszip to UbuntuGIS or any other PPA, due to the FastAC >>> code not allowing modification the

Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2018-03-17 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2018-03-17 17:25 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg : > On 03/17/2018 05:21 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> Don't upload laszip to UbuntuGIS or any other PPA, due to the FastAC >> code not allowing modification the laszip package is unredistributable >> because it violets

Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2018-03-17 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 03/17/2018 05:21 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Don't upload laszip to UbuntuGIS or any other PPA, due to the FastAC > code not allowing modification the laszip package is unredistributable > because it violets the terms of the LGPL. I see that you uploaded it to ubuntugis-experimental

Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2018-03-17 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
Hi Martin, Don't upload laszip to UbuntuGIS or any other PPA, due to the FastAC code not allowing modification the laszip package is unredistributable because it violets the terms of the LGPL. If you want to support LAZ in PDAL for GRASS getting laz-perf packages is a much better option:

Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2014-08-22 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
I've been in contact with the FastAC authors, and Amir Said has replied indicating that they would like their code to be used in Free Software projects: On 08/22/2014 01:51 AM, Amir Said wrote: Hi, Our main objective was to avoid people modifying the code, redistributing it, and we receiving

Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2014-08-21 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Dear Maintainer, some files contain the following remark: // Permission to copy and redistribute this code is hereby granted, provided - // that this warning and copyright notices are not removed or altered. - This does not allow modification. Can you please explain why this code can

Re: Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes

2014-08-21 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 08/21/2014 10:17 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Dear Maintainer, some files contain the following remark: // Permission to copy and redistribute this code is hereby granted, provided - // that this warning and copyright notices are not removed or altered. - This does not