In the COLLADA DOM release notes it says. "* [Guideline] The COLLADA DOM DLL dynamically links against the iconv library. Be sure to have the iconv.dll available for client applications which may need libxml2 international character set support. The reason for this is the viral-like nature of the GPL and LGPL licenses which requiires programs staticly linked against a GPL or LGPL library to also be licesed under the GPL or LGPL.
* [Guideline] Be careful when static linking COLLADA DOM applications. The iconv library, that libxml2 depends on, is licensed under the LGPL. Any programs staticly linked with this software must also be released as LGPL. To get around this you can either dynamic link iconv or build libxml2 without iconv support. The COLLADA DOM install package installs the default configuration of the libxml2 library which requires iconv. " So your two options are 1. dynamic link iconv or 2. build libxml2 without iconv support. I would consider the dae osg plugin a client app of the DOM so if you chose one solution for the plugin all clients of OSG need not worry about this issue. I suggest building libxml2 without iconv support and distributing it as a 3rd party lib in one of the 3rd party lib packages that get made, like Mike's win32 package. -Andy Zach Deedler wrote: > I thought LGPL was Lesser General Public License? But, upon research I > found that they are the same thing: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License > Lesser General Public License = Library General Public License > > The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General > Public License) > > Sorry, for cluttering up OSG users with licensing issues. At least now it > is resolved. > > > Zach > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Queiroz > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 09:18 > To: osg users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] Compiling collada > > Hallo, > > On 11/27/06, Zach Deedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Uwe, >> >> What version did you download? This is at the top of the header file >> that I downloaded, which appears to be GPL, but I'm not sure about the >> Library part of GNU Library General Public License: >> > > It seems to be not GPL, but LGPL. > > -- > -alex > http://www.ventonegro.org/ > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users > http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users > http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
