Tom, There are very few restrictions on redistribution imposed by the LGPL [1], none of which are specific to commercial products. From memory, the requirements for redistribution are basically:
1) any modified files must carry a prominent notice stating when/what was changed 2) BRL-CAD itself must be freely available (though you can charge reasonable fees for distribution, copying, and warranty protection) 3) if you distribute in binary form, you must offer equivalent access to a copy of the source code from the same place 4) you cannot impose any additional restrictions on that redistribution of BRL-CAD Things are a little more complicated if you link static, so I would recommend just using dynamic/shared library linkage too. One issue being that the user should be able to update or apply patches to the BRL-CAD you used and have your tool use the updated version. Basically, if you have something that links against BRL-CAD and you want to bundle it in as part of some other product, that's perfectly acceptable. You just have to make the source code to BRL-CAD available for the version that was bundled in. Cheers! Sean [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html On Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 09:55AM, "Tom Browder" <[email protected]> wrote: >Sean, is there any restriction on anyone redistributing BRL-CAD (in >source or binary form) with commercial products which rely on BRL-CAD? > How about to non-US agencies? > >There would of course be no charge for BRL-CAD itself. > >Thanks, > >-Tom > >Tom Browder >Niceville, Florida >USA > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >_______________________________________________ >BRL-CAD Users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
