Reading the EULA inside the actual downloadable SDK sort of clarifies
things. At least, the EULA is closer to the blog post intent.
There are "non-commercial" uses of the SDK which are royalty free. But
the definition of non-commercial is very restricted. Basically only
non-profits and educational purposes count. Government use, company
use, etc, are all commercial.
Open source is considered "non-commercial", but only insofar as the
actual users of the packaged open source are themselves
non-commercial. So while there is an apparent exclusion for open
source, for practical purposes there is not one. You can include ECW
in your open source project, as long as it is not used for anything
except non-profits or teaching.
I've attached the EULA (hopefully not in violation of the EULA 
for
your interest/information.
Paul
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Andrea Aime<aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:
richard_orchard ha scritto:
Hi,
check out:
http://iws.erdas.com/gis/can-i-use-ecw-technology-in-my-third-party-server.aspx
For an explanation on the licensing.
That page says one has to get a license no matter what, there is not
mention of server software under the GPL license.
This is conflicting with the SDK "download" tab here:
http://www.erdas.com/Products/ERDASProductInformation/tabid/84/currentid/1142/default.aspx
where it says:
"No more restrictions on the distribution of 'Server Software' under
the GPL-style Public Use License Agreement"
One of the two pages is telling a lie. Which one?
Can you fix your site so that this confusion does not arise anymore?
Cheers
Andrea
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