Re: Meshlab and Qutemol
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:30:18PM -0500, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 08/05/07, Paolo Cignoni <cignoni@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi, i am the lead developer of MeshLab and an helper in the
> >develepment of QuteMol (Marco Tarini is the main developer of QuteMol)
> >and we are pleased to hear your interest in including our packages in
> >some distributions.
>
> I just read in the project's webpage that
>
> Remember that, whenever you use MeshLab in a official/commercial
> project or in any kind of research, you should:
>
> * Explicitly cite in your work that you have used MeshLab, a tool
> developed with the support of the Epoch NOE,
> * Post a couple of lines in the users' forum describing the
> project where MeshLab was used.
>
> This may be a DFSG issue (fails the desert island test?). "Official"
> is probably also legally ambiguous. These are likely obstacles for
> bundling Meshlab with Debian. It may even be a GPL-incompatible
> restriction.
It says "should", not "must", though.
Michael
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