Re: [DebianGIS] New QGIS and GRASS packages for Debian Lenny, i386 and amd64
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:50:16PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > We hope to have ... GDAL ECW plugin (non-free) soon.
>
> Is that destined for Debian non-free or somewhere like
> debian-unofficial.org (which will be revived soon)?
Due my limited skills I hope to upload it to debian.gfoss.it
(much like debian-unofficial).
Frankie - which is a Debian Devel, and which studied the license
issues - said:
> for your informatin there's an ongoing work for distributing
> out-of-band (i.e. hosted elsewhere) an off-the-shelf GDAL/ECW
> module for lenny/sid, available for 1.5.2 and subsequent
> versions. It will allow to support - under the terms allowed by
> Erdas license - ECW formats without rebuilding the whole
> toolchain, as usually required. The supported archs will be
> i386/amd64. Of course it will be possible to apt-get install
> the plugin and required libs just by adding the additional
> repository.
--
Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy
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