Bug 1432330

Summary:	BSB Format (Nautical Chart Format) not enabled : --without-bsb
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ken <kjh>
Component:	gdal	Assignee:	Devrim Gündüz <devrim>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	alex, cristian.balint, devrim, jmlich83, mmahut, orion, pavel.lisy, pertusus, praiskup, rdieter, volker27
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Description Ken 2017-03-15 06:59:20 UTC

Description of problem:

BSB Format (Nautical Chart Format) not enabled


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gdal-2.1.2-5.fc25.x86_64

How reproducible:

Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "gdalinfo --formats | grep -i BSB" returns nothing
2.
3.

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:


BSB format info

Additional info:


Checking the gdal source code indicates that BSB is subject to US patent 5,727,090 and licenced to Maptech.

Checking the spec file shows "--without-bsb" to disable BSB.

Um ... any possibility of changing this ?  The source code (gdal/frmts/bsb/bsb_read.c) indicates that the patent is only for *writing* BSB files.

I guess I could work around it with an environment variable : GDAL_DRIVER_PATH

Cheers

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2017-09-11 19:03:08 UTC

marking FutureFeature to avoid autoclose

Comment 2 Volker Fröhlich 2017-11-29 22:54:39 UTC

Like you said, the bsb driver is considered legal by the developers, as far as reading goes and that is all it does. It was me who added the --without-bsb. I guess I didn't read the comment thoroughly enough then. I think we can enable it.

For reference: Debian left it enabled.

Comment 3 Volker Fröhlich 2017-11-30 20:08:10 UTC

The ticket metadata says Rawhide, but I guess you want that in current releases too?

Comment 4 Ken 2017-11-30 22:29:13 UTC

Yes the current releases would be great.

Thanks !

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2017-12-12 10:45:37 UTC

Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is
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