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["roucaries bastien" <montagnard83@...>]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, jean-pierre charras - INPG
<jean-pierre.charras@...> wrote:
> I am trying to evaluate a replacement of the GPC library:
> The "boolean" library is very interesting ( from the project named:
> Boolean: GDSII viewer/editor + (boolean) operations on sets of 2d
> polygons)..
> (see http://boolean.klaasholwerda.nl/bool.html)
> This is a library having similar (and more...) possibilities.
> It is written in C++ and widely commented.
> files seems under wxWidgets license (with a very acceptable requirement:
> show the version number and a link to the "boolean" site in the about
> box of the application).

I will ask for clarification from the main author. In one paragraph it
say no commercial distribution (GPL incompatible) and in other it say
only cite me in documentation (ie BSD documentation).

Regards

Bastien
> And kbool (the name of the library for 2 D polygon operations) is
> designed as a stand alone library, not a part of a large project.
> So, it can be used "as this".
>
> I tried the php_polygon library existing in freepcb.
> It does not work very well.
>
> The CGAL polygon library seem a good library, but is under QPL licence
> and incompatible with the GPL license
>
> The polygon1.c file from gpcb uses algos from the OSSIM project (LGPL)
> but it is written in C, and not very well documented.
> (the last version of OSSIM project is now written in C++)
>
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