[vtk-developers] Attributing VTK in a commercial app

[Ben Boeckel]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 13:42:45 -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Basically the BSD license says you have to have VTK's license (you can't
> just mention "BSD" since there are a "few"[1] variants) with it in
> binary or source form and you can't use VTK's contributors names to
> endorse your product without written permission (e.g., you can't fork
> FreeBSD and say "made by PHK!" on your product).

I guess, to be clear: IANAL and TINLA :) .

> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD?rd=Licensing/BSD

Interesting; there's a "VTK" variant there (but the last clause was
removed in 2008; it seems to have come from the zlib license).

--Ben