Re: Meshlab and Qutemol

["Paolo Cignoni" <cignoni@gmail.com>]

Hi,

that incriminiated 'should' means that people are
'morally obliged' to cite the use of MeshLab.
not legally obliged. In a previous version of the meshlab home page

http://web.archive.org/web/20060519105745/http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

it was better specified. I will re specify in that way.

I think that these conditions pass without any problem the ten
guidelines of DFSG and even the desert island test.

Now a more technichal question.
For meshlab, I use qmake as a portable building system.
Is that considered a sufficiently good replacemnte of
automake/autoconf (i have never used them from a  developer point of
view only as a dumb installer)?

P.




On 5/9/07, Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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