We went though it with the ERDAS guys and they said its fine to redistribute.
I never thought there was a issue on Ubuntu. I thought we uploaded the built package ourself. Nathan On Jul 12, 2014 2:52 PM, "Alex Mandel" <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote: > Well it's more of a 1/2 truth. You are correct that they are likely > distributable (I'm more familiar with MrSID issues). However, not in a > mainstream Debian or Ubuntu repository where it's license would prohibit > it from being uploaded. It may be a candidate for a non-free repo but > that would likely require the company behind ECW to put it there. > > I suppose the qgis.org repo could potentially keep a copy but that would > require gdal to be built by the qgis team for this purpose. > > Do you know if the instructions on how to build are still correct, > that's really the important part of this. > > Thanks, > Alex > > > On 07/11/2014 09:33 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > The information in that post is incorrect. You are allowed to > redistribute > > them. They are not open source but there is no desktop restriction on the > > libraries. > > On Jul 12, 2014 2:31 PM, "Alex Mandel" <tech_...@wildintellect.com> > wrote: > > > >> On 07/11/2014 09:21 PM, zehari wrote: > >>> Dear All, > >>> I have installed a new ubuntu 14:04 by removing ubuntu 13:10. Then, I > >>> installed QGIS2.4 program, but can no longer open ECW files, while the > >>> previous version is still functioning. > >>> Can anyone help me, why is this happening? > >>> For his help I would like to thank. > >>> > >>> regards, > >>> > >>> Zehari > >>> > >> > >> GDAL/OGR on Ubuntu does not support ECW by default due to licensing > >> restrictions. You have to rebuild GDAL/OGR with ECW support. > >> > >> > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27247/ecw-for-qgis-1-8-in-ubuntu-12-04/27398#27398 > >> > >> Once you do that QGIS will be able to read ECW. > >> I'm not sure how you got this to work previously without rebuilding > GDAL. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Alex > > >
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