[Gvsig_english] ECW and DWG

[Chris Puttick]

There are libraries around that facilitate the reading of DWG (earlier versions), and for those with a streak of pragmatism, there is a not-quite-free library set from the Open Design Alliance that allows reading DWG upto most recent versions. I assume gvSIG is using the older libraries.

Personally I'd love to see the API for this built into gvSIG so that those who need DWG access can download it; I'd go so far as to proffer a contribution towards the cost of getting gvSIG membership at the "sustaining" level so that a non-free as in freedom version of gvSIG with complete DWG compatibility could be available for download. If enough people/organisations contribute "founding" membership would be even better!

Chris


----- "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Hi all.
> AFAIK, no free and open source software is able (due both to
> technological and patenting issues) to read ECW and DWG files. I am
> therefore wondering about how gvSIG can do that, and I'd be grateful
> of
> any technical and legal clarification.
> Many thanks.
> pc
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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