Hi Robert

I developed this plugin while working on a project based on Equalizer.
So VertexData which I am using is taken from equalizer and modified to
make them work as separate OSG plugin.
Before contributing this plugin to OSG community, I asked project
manager of Equalizer project Stefen regarding potential licensing issues
and this is what he has said

"The kd-Tree (VertexBuffer*) is LGPL-licensed, and the base ply loader
(ply*) is BSD. As long as you leave the copyright notices intact, there
is no issue."

so I think using these files in OSG should not be a problem.

As far as author of ReaderWriterPLY.cpp  is concerned I am the author. I
am working for Darshan3d which is a subsidiary of VizExperts thats why I
have put VizExperts copyright.

I hope this make things clear to you.

Cheers
Santosh Gaikwad
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Darshan Solutions Limited
www.darshan3d.com <http://www.darshan3d.com>
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Robert Osfield wrote:
> Hi Santosh,
>
> I'm just reviewing the code and mostly everything looks fine but need
> to clarify the license on vertexData.h and vertexData.cpp and
> typedefs.h.  The notice is:
>
> /* 
>     vertexData.h
>     Copyright (c) 2007, Tobias Wolf <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     All rights reserved. 
>    
>     Header file of the VertexData class.
> */
>
> There isn't mention of the license that it's copyrighted under.   Was
> this code taken from another body of work?  Have you contacted Tobias
> at all?
>
> The noticed on ReaderWriterPLY.cpp is:
>
> /*
>  * PLY  ( Stanford Triangle Format )  File Loader for OSG
>  * Copyright (C) 2009 by VizExperts Limited
>  * All rights reserved.
>  *
>  * This program is  free  software;  you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it
>  * under the terms of the  GNU Lesser General Public License  as
> published by
>  * the  Free Software Foundation;  either version 2.1 of the License, 
> or (at
>  * your option) any later version.
>
> which is fine, but makes me wonder who the original author was, and
> who the various contributors have been on the code.  When I do a check
> into svn/trunk I want to enumerate the various authors.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert.
>
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