[Paraview] Licensing Question

[Berk Geveci]

ParaView is open source in source or binary form (however shocking
this may be :-) You can find the license on top of any header (*.h
file). I will add a license.txt file when we release the next
binary. The license and copyright text is as follows:

Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Kitware Inc. 469 Clifton Corporate Parkway,
Clifton Park, NY, 12065, USA.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

 * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

 * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

 * Neither the name of Kitware nor the names of any contributors may be
   used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
   without specific prior written permission.

 * Modified source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
   be misrepresented as being the original software.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:15, H. F. Streit wrote:
> Greetings,
>     I'm a comp. admin. here in Texas.  One of my users would *love* to 
> have ParaView installed on his WinXP box.  But I've come across a kind 
> of problem.  The president of our division has recently freaked-out 
> about copyright infringment and Intellecutal Property violations and 
> such.  As a result, he's decided to pry into my life as an Admin and 
> demand to see a license for every piece of software (once I explained 
> what a license is and what it means).  Since ParaView has open-source, 
> I'm sure I could tell him that it was Open-Source (and then explain what 
> that ment and avoid further issues).  But I feel that ParaView, while 
> having open sourcecode, that it isn't Open-Source.   I've dug thru the 
> website, the documentation from the binary packages, and the docs with 
> the sourcecode.  I still cannot find a "License" file, or an EULA, or 
> anything outlining the usage permitted in clear terms.  The closest I 
> can find is a copyright notice.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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