[vtk-developers] Attributing VTK in a commercial app

[David Cole]

What do you mean by "Basically the BSD license says you have to have
VTK's license" ??

Do you mean I need to include the text of VTK's "Copyright.txt" file?

It's a closed-source app, and it will be sold under a commercial
license. It is not going to have an open-source license.

We are not going to use anybody's name to sell it, but we would like
to give kudos where kudos are due. i.e. -- we'd like to say "Made with
VTK!," ... we do not want to say "endorsed by Bill Lorensen..."
(although we may seek his endorsement separately from this
conversation....) :-)


Thx,
D


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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