Greg Troxel-2 wrote > Even Rouault < > even.rouault@
> > writes: > >> Can you transparently tell us why Grok is AGPL licensed ? Do you sell >> commercial licenses for people who couldn't comply with the AGPL license >> ? > > Certainly a good question. I have no idea in this case and my comments > should not be taken to imply anything about this particular library Hi, I had a feeling that I have seen this discussion before. And indeed, I would say it started in December, 2015 from this mail https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2015-December/043296.html. There are a few more threads to read in January, 2016, and the reason for AGPL was announced in February 3rd 2016 in mail "Fork Yeah!" https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2016-February/043649.html. Aaron Boxer wrote: "The code is licensed under the AGPL, to ensure that all code modifications get contributed back to the community." Later Aaron gave clear answers to some follow-up questions: "> The use of AGPL means that your OpenJPEG fork will not be used for > commercial projects and any enhancements you make will not make there way > into OpenJPEG. > Correct. > > You may have a good reason for choosing this licence and as such it is > your choice. > Yes. > > Either way good luck. > Thank you." I do not know how much has changed during these five years. Grok is probably better now but I think that JPEG2000 gives biggest benefits for medical imaging and motion pictures which are both in a way volumetric, but codecs compressing in 3D need to be even more sophisticated. With traditional GIS imagery OpenJPEG is rather good nowadays if data producers play the same game and do not create their images in the hardest possible way. But I welcome the new driver if it will have a maintainer and if it does not mean more pain for the main developers and users who do not need Grok. -Jukka Rahkonen- -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GDAL-Dev-f3742093.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev