[vtk-developers] Attributing VTK in a commercial app

[David Cole]

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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