I think it means that everyone reverse engineered it over time; ESRI does publish something but at least one of the index files is so poorly done (or poorly understood) that the open source projects make use of their own. Shapefile (like DBF) is so old it appeared before people went crazy about licensing formats; about as old as FAT (oh wait FAT has a patent!). Wikipedia has it listed as a "mostly open" format ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile Cheers, Jody > Hey all, > > Does anybody know what kind of licence has the shapefile format? > Because I've found that it has a "(mostly) open specification" but I'm > interested in knowing what does "mostly open" mean exactly. > > Thanks in advance! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users >
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