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New ECW EULA from ERMapper / Leica

posted by Satri on Friday June 08, @08:38AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the you-can't-do-everything-you-want-with-bits dept.
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Stefano Costa writes "ERMapper, after being recently acquired by Leica, has changed the license for their ECW SDK to a common EULA [End-User License Agreement]: http://www.ermapper.com/ProductView.aspx?t=228 (the complete text for the EULA can be received via e-mail from ERM). It's interesting to see what it going to happen now that users are "granted the rights to use the ER Mapper Image Compression SDK for evaluation purposes only" if they didn't get a license from ERMapper. ECW is one of the most widespread formats for webmapping of high-resolution imagery data." Can anyone shares insights on how this could affect ECW users?

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