[vtkusers] Freetype License Question

[Sebastien BARRE]

Oliver

At 2/25/2008 11:06 AM, Oliver Kania wrote:
>I wonder if i can simply use freetype with VTK without any licensing Problems.
>The reason I am asking is that freetype is Licensed under GPL and
>I would do something like extending VTK with freetype. However, I have read
>that the VTK license does not allow to extend VTK with GPLed code because
>VTK would then be no longer usable as a closed source library

Freetype would not be in VTK if it was GPL.
It's actually dual licensed:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/license.html
And the FreeType License is a BSD-style compatible with ours.