[vtk-developers] Can we add gl2ps to Utilities?

[William A. Hoffman]

Perhaps the author of gl2ps would consider a BSD license, then there
would be no issue.



-Bill Hoffman


At 01:24 PM 10/10/2003, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>Hi Andy,
>
>>>>>> "AC" == Andy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik at kitware.com> writes:
>
>    AC> Hi Prabhu, Thanks for all gl2ps work.
>
>My pleasure.
>
>    AC> I personally am against putting gl2ps to VTK, since at this
>    AC> point in time there is (or at least should not be) any non-BSD
>    AC> or BSD compatible code (correct me if I am wrong). I would
>    AC> vote for creating a separate gl2ps build that has
>    AC> CMakeLists.txt, FindGL2PS.cmake..., then whoever wants can use
>    AC> it, but VTK itself would stay as is.
>
>Well, I thought that since gl2ps is LGPL'd its not an issue to
>distribute unmodified copies of gl2ps with VTK and that the only
>restriction is that someone who downloads VTK cannot modify gl2ps
>without releasing the modified sources for gl2ps.  I thought that this
>can be avoided by specifying the licence restriction clearly in a
>README inside the gl2ps directory.  However I am not a Lawyer and
>don't if there are clauses in the LGPL that will bind us.
>
>I'll ask Christophe about it and see if he sees any potential issues
>or if he can make an exception if there is a problem.
>
>cheers,
>prabhu
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