Dear ESRI Canada Tech Supoprt,
(client id and version details attached)
I would like to get a clear answer on
what is or isn't allowed with regards to the File
Geodatabase API and redistribution of DLLs. The text of the
license states, in part:
[...]
4.2 Uses Not
Permitted
[...]
b. Except as provided
herein, Licensee shall not redistribute Software, Data, or Web
Services to third parties, in whole or in part, including, but
not limited to, extensions, components, or DLLs.
[...]
The scope of use for
the Software, Data, Web Services, and Documentation identified
below is described in
the applicable footnotes identified in parentheses.
Software
Esri File Geodatabase
API (47)
47. Licensee may
develop and distribute software or web applications that use the
Esri File Geodatabase API to Licensee's end users.
The Footnote 47 might be intended to allow redistributions of the
DLL, but it doesn't clearly state so.
At various places in the user forums and elsewhere on the internet
Esri staffers are seen clearly stating redistribution is free
and that including the
runtime DLLs are allowed, probably. I'd like to erase that "probably"
with firm yes or no.
So, can, for example, the GDAL ESRI File
Geodabase (FileGDB) driver be packaged and redistributed with
the run-time file-gdb dynamic link library (FileGDBAPI.dll) to end
users, by means of something like the OSGeo4W
gdal-filegdb driver?
Basically I'd like to be able to give that to someone and they can
read our data right away, and not have to add instructions similar
to "go to Esri.com, create an Esri Global Account, sign in to
the resource centre, go to the api download page, agree to
license, download, unpackage, find 'FileGDBAPI.dll', and put it in
PATH, ...etc."
thank you,
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matt wilkie
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Geomatics Analyst
Information Management and Technology
Yukon Department of Environment
10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9
867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax
http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/
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