[Paraview] Licensing Question

H. F. Streit hstreit at cnwra . swri . edu
Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:15:17 -0500


Greetings,
    I'm a comp. admin. here in Texas.  One of my users would *love* to 
have ParaView installed on his WinXP box.  But I've come across a kind 
of problem.  The president of our division has recently freaked-out 
about copyright infringment and Intellecutal Property violations and 
such.  As a result, he's decided to pry into my life as an Admin and 
demand to see a license for every piece of software (once I explained 
what a license is and what it means).  Since ParaView has open-source, 
I'm sure I could tell him that it was Open-Source (and then explain what 
that ment and avoid further issues).  But I feel that ParaView, while 
having open sourcecode, that it isn't Open-Source.   I've dug thru the 
website, the documentation from the binary packages, and the docs with 
the sourcecode.  I still cannot find a "License" file, or an EULA, or 
anything outlining the usage permitted in clear terms.  The closest I 
can find is a copyright notice.

Any ideas?