Re: Meshlab and Qutemol

["Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso" <jordigh@gmail.com>]

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.

- Jordi G. H.