[Source] Xj3D Development of nurbs component

[Alan Hudson]

On 7/11/2012 2:14 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:
> (Terry, Vince, William, Don are on teleconference line today)
>
> On 7/10/2012 2:29 PM, Alan Hudson wrote:
>> [...]
>> Please be careful around the jgeom library.  The only headers I've seen for the project have this license on it:
>>
>> /*
>>    * jgeom: Geometry Library fo Java
>>    *
>>    * Copyright (C) 2005  Samuel Gerber
>>    *
>>    * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>    * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>>    * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
>>    * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> Differences between Xj3D LGPL and jGeom GPL are understood.
> Thanks for the alert.
>
> On 7/11/2012 12:18 AM, Christophe MOUTON wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I was in touch with the main developer of the jgeom library, I will ask him if LGPL could be OK for him.
> Merci Christophe.  As a courtesy we've cc:ed Samuel Gerber, with thanks.
>
> On 7/11/2012 1:35 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:>  updated jgeom library by author:
>> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sgerber/software/index.htm
> this also has a link to source:
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sgerber/software/jgeom.tar.gz
>
> however the .gz unzipped, but the .tar appears corrupted.
>
> We talked through our plan about how to move forward on next steps.
>
> Apparently there might have been source additions when Christophe
> provided a copy from the original authors' work (under the same GPL
> license) to Vince.  However no modifications are expected to be
> needed for the reintegration of Vince's current work.
>
> jgeom-core.jar is already checked into the Xj3D trunk.  Vince will
> check on whether he can build against that.

I may have missed the licensing problem when Alex checked this jar into 
Xj3D.  If its GPL then we need to remove it.  Hopefully we can get 
clarity from the original author of their intent.


-- 
Alan Hudson, Director 3D Tools
www.shapeways.com