Hello All,

I am not sure how to interpret the license from Ken Clarkson's hull program
which computes convex hull/delaunay triangulation in n-dimension, Here is
the original license:

/** Ken Clarkson wrote this. Copyright (c) 1995 by AT&T..
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
* purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
* is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
* or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
* documentation for such software.
*/

My question:
If I use the hull code in my own software, does that force my software
into the same condition, i.e., all of my source code files would have to
include the above license? if not, then, can I use it as a binary lib for
free as long as I make the lib and the modified source of the lib freely
available, i.e., as a LGPL license? I cannot seem to get in touch with Ken
to clarify this.

Thanks for your help and insight,

Anyone? Please, any comments are appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

"ds755" wrote in message news:fpmijs$idk$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...

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"ds755" writes:

That's more or less just the usual BSD 3-clause license, which is
commonly accepted as being very friendly even to "proprietary"
software, except that it's a bit vague as to what they mean by
"copies of software" [the BSD license explicitly says what to do
when you distribute sources as opposed to distributing binaries].

It certainly doesn't affect your own source files.

I think you're pretty safe as long as you (1) put a copy of that
license statement in your doc somewhere, (2) keep that comment in
the source file you copied, and (3) maybe put it in a file in the
binary distribution [README file or something] if you don't include
the source along with the binary distribution.

But of course IANAL, and don't know what I'm talking about...

-Miles

Hi Miles,

Thanks a lot for your comments. It is very helpful.

Dan
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