Comments regarding laszip_2.2.0-1_amd64.changes
Sebastiaan Couwenberg
sebastic at xs4all.nl
Sat Mar 17 16:25:54 UTC 2018
On 03/17/2018 05:21 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Don't upload laszip to UbuntuGIS or any other PPA, due to the FastAC
> code not allowing modification the laszip package is unredistributable
> because it violets the terms of the LGPL.
I see that you uploaded it to ubuntugis-experimental already, so I
deleted that package since we're not allowed to distribute the package
in it current form.
> If you want to support LAZ in PDAL for GRASS getting laz-perf packages
> is a much better option:
>
> https://github.com/hobu/laz-perf/
>
> On 08/21/2014 10:17 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>> some files contain the following remark:
>> // Permission to copy and redistribute this code is hereby granted, provided -
>> // that this warning and copyright notices are not removed or altered. -
>>
>> This does not allow modification. Can you please explain why this code can be
>> licensed under LGPL?
Kind Regards,
Bas
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