License question

[ramcdona]

Thanks for making Visilib available as open source and for all your work.

I am interested in calling Visilib from my program. While my program is open source, it is not GPL, and so it is not compatible with Visilib.

From what I can see so far, there are very few object-space 3D visibility libraries available -- do you know of any others?

I know Visilib uses CGAL (parts are GPL only, other parts are more permissive) and some other dependencies that may make changing licenses impossible. However, if it is possible, I would encourage you to consider that changing Visilib's license to LGPL would allow its use by more projects (open source and otherwise).

[dhaumont]

@ramcdona You have a point, GPL might be too restrictive for the dissemination of Visilib to a broader audience. I will check the license scheme used in CGAL, to see how they proceed.
As far as I know, there is no other object-space 3D visibility library available, which makes Visilib truly unique! ;-)