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[Andreas Fabri <>]

On 14/09/2011 15:38, Audette, Michel A. wrote:
> Dear CGAL developers,
> my collaborators and I are giving some thought to integrating the CGAL
> tetrahedral mesh generation with Slicer, but I was wondering about the
> particular license of this implementation: can the license be made
> compatible with Slicer's, which is BSD? Can any restriction be
> circumvented by distributing binaries only?
> Best wishes,
> Michel
> Michel Audette, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor,
> Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering,
> Old Dominion University,
> Norfolk, VA.

Hi Michel,

CGAL is under the QPL, which is compatible with BSD.
Only distributing binaries is not a solution but a problem:
The QPL obliges you to distribute source code.

Note that as slicer is distributed under BSD it can be integrated
in commercial code.  By integrating CGAL in slicer, this is no
longer possible, as users have to take into account the strongest
restriction of the licenses.  That is, when you integrate CGAL,
the CGAL files of the slicer distribution are still under the QPL
and not under the BSD.

Hope this helps,

andreas
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