hdf5 license

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Mon Jun 27 21:06:08 UTC 2005


Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> I've had HDF5 in my todo list for sometime, the primary hold-out is
> this:
> 
> HDF5 without support for szip seems to be crippling it. Szip's license
> is such that it cannot be included in Fedora.
> 
> So, to those people interested in hdf5: is it still useful without szip
> compression support?
> 
> ~spot

Well, I've never built HDF5 with SZIP support before, and it's been 
useful for us.  So, I'd vote for for it.

- Orion




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