[DebianGIS-dev] licensing issue in libgeotiff

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The inclusion of libgeotiff (which is included in debian gdal if 
> > I'm not wrong) in fedora extras is blocked by a licencing issue that 
> > may be relevant for debian. 
> > 
> > It seems like some data included in libgeotiff is covered by:
> > http://www.epsg.org/CurrentDB.html#use
> > 
> > with
> >     3. The data may not be distributed for profit by any third party;
> > 
> > completed by 
> >     With regard to (3) above, the data may be included within proprietary 
> >     applications distributed on a commercial basis when the commerciality 
> >     is based on application functionality and not on a value ascribed to 
> >     the freely-distributed EPSG dataset.
> > 
> 
> This is relevant. I would move those data into a non-free package a part.
> That would involve re-packaging the upstream tarball, of course.


That will be probably fixed by EPSG with re-licensing, by rumors...
BTW, it involves gdal, proj and possibly others.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine