hdf5 license

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:06 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Well, I've never built HDF5 with SZIP support before, and it's been 
> useful for us.  So, I'd vote for for it.


I agree with Orion.  I think HDF5 without SZIP is still useful.

thanks,
Ed

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