Ops. How QGis can use GDAL which uses ECW?! 1 - GDAL is LGPL 2 - it's imported by QGis, so it doesn't use QGis but is used by... 3 - osgeo4w bundles gdal-ecw DLL
giovanni 2012/3/27 Noli Sicad <nsi...@gmail.com> > QGis (GPL) + GPL + LGPL + proprietary = illegal. > > Any proprietary code added to GPL is illegal. Unless they re license > the code as LGPL. > > Noli > > > > On 3/27/12, Paolo Corti <pco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:07 AM, G. Allegri <gioha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I premit that I've already chosen a solution to bypass these issues: > one, > >> common library and two plugins, one for qgis and one for arcpy. The > >> plugins > >> will interact through pickling, sharing a common data structure from the > >> common library. This is the easiest solution for me to deploy (no > servers > >> as > >> with iPython or RabbitMQ). > >> > > > > Hi Giovanni > > as others suggested, you can not use arcpy for > > writing a QGIS plugin, if you are willing to deploy it as open source > > (ie it is not for your company internal use). QGIS plugins must be > > released as GPL. > > Are you considering to release your solution for the community? If not > > - as I think - you do not need to bother ;) > > > >> > >> fTool + GDAL python bindings + ECW > >> > > > > same here, if you are willing to open your code to the community. > > For the same reason GDAL packages are not built with ecw support (same > > for file gdb, arcsde ecc ecc), but you must compile it for yourself if > > you need it. > > > > ciao > > p > > > > -- > > Paolo Corti > > Geospatial software developer > > web: http://www.paolocorti.net > > twitter: @capooti > > skype: capooti > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > >
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