Re: [eigen] Eigen and Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only discussion I was involved with, was 2 years ago. It might be
worth restarting it after (if) we do switch to MPL2. At that time,
nothing particular came out of this discussion.

CC'ing Marcus who might know more.

Benoit

2012/1/22 FMDSPAM <fmdspam@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi List,
>
> a few month ago, if i remember it correctly, a discussion in the
> vtk-mailing list appears to use eigen as "the math lib" of vtk.
> Possibly benoit, who was involved, can sum up the result of this discussion.
>
> I am now accidentally came across "VES".
>
> Cite #1:
> "VES is the VTK OpenGL ES Rendering Toolkit. It is a C++ rendering
> library for mobile devices using OpenGL ES 2.0. VES integrates with the
> Visualization Toolkit (VTK)<http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK>  to deliver
> scientific and medical visualization capabilities to mobile application
> developers."
>
> Cite #2:
> "What about Licensing?
> VES may be used to develop and distribute open source and closed source
> applications and libraries. VES is licensed with the Apache License
> Version 2.0<http://public.kitware.com/ves-docs/license.html>. VES
> dependencies are VTK<http://www.vtk.org>  and Eigen
> <http://eigen.tuxfamily.org>. VTK is licensed with the BSD license
> <http://www.vtk.org/VTK/project/license.html>. Eigen is licensed with
> the LGPL3+<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>. Please visit Eigen's
> Licensing FAQ<http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Licensing_FAQ>
> for more information."
>
> I thought that might be interesting.
> Cheers
> Frank
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