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I have added some words in red for further clarification. can we put
this in the WIKI if people are agreed it is accurate enough for public
consumption.<br>
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To summarize,<b> within the framework of paraview plugin development</b><br>
<br>
1) You do not modify/<font color="#cc0000">use</font>/derive from or
create any Qt based code <font color="#ff0000">in your plugins</font>:<br>
You can distribute your software under your
own terms, <font color="#ff0000">BSD</font>/GPL or other. Users must
have access to the ParaView source,
which they do anyway, your software does not have to be open source.<br>
<br>
2) You do not have a Qt license and you have modified/<font
color="#ff0000">used</font>/derived Qt based
code :<br>
You must make your source code available to users under the terms of
the GPL (including ParaView source, which they do anyway). <font
color="#ff0000">The users are those who make use of the binaries, if
the users are in-house, the source is assumed to be available to them.</font><br>
<br>
3) You have a Qt license:<br>
You can keep the source code closed and distribute anything (Qt based
or otherwise) you want under your
own terms. <br>
<br>
4) You may separate plugins which make use of Qt based code from others
which do not, and distribute them on different terms, according to the
first 3 statements.<br>
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John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ cscs.ch
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cscs.ch/">http://www.cscs.ch/</a>
CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07
Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82</pre>
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