[Soc-2006-dev] Fw: Re: TetGen licence

[Dmitriy Mazovka]

-----Original Message-----
From: Hang Si <si at wias-berlin.de>
To: Dmitriy Mazovka <mazovka at bk.ru>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:02:14 +0200
Subject: Re: TetGen licence

> 
> Hello Dmitriy,
> 
> I'm very glad to get your mail.  You are very welcome.
> 
> 
> > I am participant of Google Summer of Code program in Blender Open source
> > project. Blender is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
> > And I see, TetGen would be very helpful for me (I'm developing Sky
> > generator tool). But there are some confusing lines in the licence file:
> >
> > "This means that TetGen is no free software, but for private, research,
> > and  educational purposes it  can be  used at  absolutely no  cost and
> > without further arrangements."
> >
> > Other seems to be acceptable - TetGen will be used as a part of Blender,
> > whose code is distributed absolutely freely.
> >
> > So, may we do that?
> >
> >   
> 
> Thank you for asking this.  Your project is of very interesting and I'm
> happy that you want to try TetGen.  Since Blender is not a commercial
> software, you of course can use TetGen in it.  And if you did, please
> make a reference somewhere in the website of Blender which links to
> TetGen's website, that's it.
> 
> 
> > Also I would like to make some modifications to tetgen sources, according
> > to the licence.
> >
> >   
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hang Si
>