Re: [DebianGIS] libecw status
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:08:46AM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:49 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:41:01PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > Any news about a (possibly non-free) plugin for libecw for gdal?
> > > There was an old ITP currently closed about that. I have now to
> > > keep up things up and working about that here for a project,
> > > I was curious if someone has already packaged a plugin...
> > >
> >
> > Ah sorry, I did not see that Steve already reopened that ITP...
> > Steve?
>
> I think a determination needs to be made about whether it can even be
> distributed in non-free. This post:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00150.html
>
> suggests that failure of DFSG 9 means it can't go in non-free. The
> offending clause is:
>
> > iv) You are not permitted to use Software Product for development or
> > distribution of "Server Software" that provides services or
> > functionality on a computer acting as a server.
>
> This places a restriction on other software distributed with libecw.
>
> Steve
The 'non server' condition has been removed indeed in 3.3rc2, you will
find:
'Revised 8th June 2005 - Removed server restriction from GPL License'.
So condition 9 is respected currently. I'm not completely persuaded
that it is distributable as non-free, anyway. But I'm not a d-legal
expert...
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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