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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon LiangliangNan

Change the licence

Open tom-010 opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

I would love to use your library - it looks great. But the GPL Licence would poison our complete code base. Is there any chance that you change the license to a more liberal (like Apache 2)?

tom-010 avatar Apr 08 '20 09:04 tom-010

@tom-010 Thanks for your interest in using Easy3D. Licenses are always a headache for software development :-(

Some of our published and ongoing research projects are based on Easy3D. I have also planned to include more advanced geometry processing algorithms in Easy3D in future releases. Some of the related algorithms are based on other GPL-licensed software like CGAL, which makes it difficult to switch to another license.

Another option might be to have dual licenses in the future, but I am not sure how it will work.

LiangliangNan avatar Apr 09 '20 07:04 LiangliangNan

I concur with tom-010's viewpoint. Your killing your project by retaining the GPL license. CGAL is also licensed under the LGPL.

ghost avatar Mar 09 '23 19:03 ghost