[vtk-developers] Attributing VTK in a commercial app

[David E DeMarle]

yes

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:

> If I scan the $1.00 check, and print it out on legal size paper, would
> that be large enough?
>
> :-P
>
>
> thx
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:20 PM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:54 PM, David Cole via vtk-developers
> > <vtk-developers at vtk.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you mean by "Basically the BSD license says you have to have
> >> VTK's license" ??
> >>
> >
> > Just means that the software has to be able to display VTK's license.
> Maybe
> > an about button will say something to the effect of, "parts of this
> > application use VTK for which the copyright is …."
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Totally OK. Lame but OK.
> >
> >>
> >> 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....) :-)
> >>
> >
> > Send me a large check and I'll endorse your application.
> >
> >>
> >> 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
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