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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le dimanche 27 septembre 2009 14:00:45, Sybren A. Stüvel a écrit :
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:09:58PM +0200, Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory) 
wrote:
> > > Now I'll continue pimping my script so that the output looks just
> > > the way I like it. Once that's done I'll publish it on my website
> > > under the GPL.
> >
> > The licence of CGAL is not compatible with GPL. You'll probably need
> > to publish that code under QPL or LGPL. See:
> >   http://www.cgal.org/license.html
> 
> Do I need to be compatible with the CGAL license? I'm writing a script
> that has nothing directly to do with the CGAL code. I'm merely parsing
> a file that's being output by CGAL.
> 
> If CGAL is interested in shipping my script with CGAL, then everything
> changes of course.

I think you are right.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
Release Manager of the CGAL Project
http://www.cgal.org/
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory
http://www.geometryfactory.com/