Re: Meshlab and Qutemol
On 5/9/07, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
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?).
I guess it would depend on whether the "should" above is intended to
be legally binding. If not, for reasons of clarification it might be
a good idea for upstream to rewrite this text to read something like
the following.
"The authors of MeshLab would appreciate it if, whenever you use
MeshLab in an official/commercial project or in any kind of research,
you would:
[skip bullet points]
However, this is not a legally binding obligation."
If the text *is* meant to be legally binding, then I agree, it sounds
non-DFSG-free.
best regards,
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