Add ECW support in the GeoServer downloads
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Key: GEOS-2296
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2296
Project: GeoServer
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Andrea Aime
Assignee: Andrea Aime
Fix For: 1.7.1
Talking with Frank Warmerdam at FOSS4G I got a suggestion on how to enable ECW support in GeoServer without risking license violations.
Basically, we build the ECW GDAL drivers as a GDAL plugin, and distribute only the GDAL part, without the ECW libraries.
For windows users, we ask them to go and download the ECW binary sdk, for linux users we tell them to download the source one and compile it.
By building the GDAL driver as a plugin, GDAL will look if the libraries are there, if they are not, no problem, the plugin just gets disabled.
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