[Bug 199405] Review Request: vtk - The Visualization Toolkit - A high level 3D visualization library

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Summary: Review Request: vtk - The Visualization Toolkit - A high level 3D visualization library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199405





------- Additional Comments From Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net  2006-09-29 03:41 EST -------
(In reply to comment #23)
> there is still a bug that was inserting the package build path when trying
> to build another project that uses VTK. Apparently this is a known bug:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388736

Thanks, I'll fix that!

> Regarding the patent issues, I haven't fully researched the issue, but I was
> recently referred to these links by someone who uses VTK:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2005-February/003131.html
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2002-July/001757.html
> 
> It sounds to me like the patented subdirectory was removed from the source
> tree with release 5.0 because of the problems it was causing.

That's half the story. Apparently the authors themselves have patents on
algorithms in the code, they only removed foreign algorithms. I *assume* that
the authors would grant rights to use within Fedora and similar projects, but
I'd only like to ask if Fedora Legal would accept such a modus. I'm going to
raise that issue on the extras list.


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