Hi,
I was looking into what to offer for the performance presentation
and noticed that both MapServer and MapGuide either come bundled
with ECW support (MS4W 2.2.8) or have simple instructions on how
to set that up (http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FdoGdalNotes).
DeeGree download contains the pure java part of the ecw support,
but there is no trace of instructions on where to download the
binary libs.
So I'm wondering... are the GDAL based servers doing something right that we don't, or they're just happily risking of being sued?
Cheers
Andrea
I'm pretty sure they're risking being sued. I imagine that ERMapper / Leica hasn't been proactive about telling them to not bundle it, so they're just operating under the assumption that nothing has really changed.
Though actually, I think we can do what MapGuide did - simple instructions on how to set it up. It points people at the SDK agreement, so it puts responsibility for breaking the license on the people setting it up. I think we just need to do that, to make it a separate download with easy instructions that says in those 'you are limited by the latest sdk agreement, it can be found at XXX' So we're not then liable for being sued, the people setting it up are. We just can't distribute it with GeoServer.
C
Andrea Aime wrote:
Hi,
I was looking into what to offer for the performance presentation
and noticed that both MapServer and MapGuide either come bundled
with ECW support (MS4W 2.2.8) or have simple instructions on how
to set that up (http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FdoGdalNotes).
DeeGree download contains the pure java part of the ecw support,
but there is no trace of instructions on where to download the
binary libs.
So I'm wondering... are the GDAL based servers doing something right that we don't, or they're just happily risking of being sued?
Cheers
Andrea
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Chris Holmes ha scritto:
I'm pretty sure they're risking being sued. I imagine that ERMapper / Leica hasn't been proactive about telling them to not bundle it, so they're just operating under the assumption that nothing has really changed.
Though actually, I think we can do what MapGuide did - simple instructions on how to set it up. It points people at the SDK agreement, so it puts responsibility for breaking the license on the people setting it up. I think we just need to do that, to make it a separate download with easy instructions that says in those 'you are limited by the latest sdk agreement, it can be found at XXX' So we're not then liable for being sued, the people setting it up are. We just can't distribute it with GeoServer.
Right... in order to make it even safer we should provide
the download only after a click through, so that they get to the
dll only after they acknowledged there are legal restrictions
they should be aware of (and read). Doing a little web app that
does the click thought thing should not be difficult.
Cheers
Andrea