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<br><div><div>Le 13 févr. 08 à 00:43, Tobias Sargeant a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm the developer of Carve, a fast and robust CSG library (there's</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">some information here: <a href="http://carve-csg.com">http://carve-csg.com</a>/). It is currently a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">commercial product, licensed to a major mining software company. For a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">long time I've considered dual licensing Carve along the same lines of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Qt (free for non-commercial use, separate license for commercial use),</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">specifically so that it could be incorporated into Blender. I believe</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that Carve improves significantly on the CSG code currently available</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in Blender.</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Second license need to be GPL compatible for inclusion in blender.</div><div>That means it must be copyleft and you cannot restrict ulterior uses. A </div><div>company, if it is prepared to publish his own code could take your </div><div>lib from there and abbid to the GPL, and you would have no right to </div><div>oppose. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The first license can be anything<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'd like to know, first, whether there's any interest from blender</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">developers in pursuing this (maybe CSG isn't an important enough</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">feature; I'm not sure). If there is, is there anyone who has</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">experience or advice regarding the associated licensing issues?</div> </blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>CSG isnt important for the moment because of the weakness of the library <div>we use. But CSG is a very imporant tool in a modelling package, especially</div><div>if it can also support trim operations.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So yes, I'm (and i think all of us) interested if you can improve the situation in </div><div>that area.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jean-Luc Peurière</div><div><a href="mailto:jlp@nerim.net">jlp@nerim.net</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>