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Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:57:22 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> I can't legally agree to that, and it's likely that a large percentage of the
> other authors can't either. The thing is, I'm not the sole author of LDView,
> and never have been. LDView has always included code written by friends of mine
> from college, and additionally it has contained 3rd-party libraries for some
> time now (libpng, zlib, unzip32, and boost in the Windows version). It also
> contains code written by Lars C. Hassing, and code that Lars got from somewhere.
> Finally, the QT version contains quite a bit of code written by Peter Bartfai
> (the maintainer of LDView's QT port), and of course contains QT itself, but that
> wouldn't come into play here if I restricted my "permission" to the Windows
> version.
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> Now, most of this 3rd-party code is included under permissive licenses. (All of
> it is if you consider GPL V2 to be permissive.) But it doesn't meet the
> requirements of your form. There is good news, though. Your form should be
> totally unnecessary for GPL-licensed software. The GPL itself gives you
> everything you need, as long as you make an archive of the source code somewhere
> and provide instructions in the all-in-one installer for obtaining that source
> code.
>
> --Travis
I take it the latest version of LDVIEW is under the GPL?
Ahui
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