Viewer licensing

[dvinc]

@nicolaje @SimonRohou @benEnsta @msis
I open this issue to discuss about VIBes viewer licensing with the other contributors.

• license type?
• conditions for academic use (e.g cite the VIBes paper), conditions for commercial use (e.g credit VIBes)? Adding such conditions will make the viewer code GPL incompatible.

[dvinc]

A main concern in the choice of the viewer licence will be Qt open source licence compatibility (some parts are available as LGPLv2.1 or v3, some others that we don't use are only v3): http://www.qt.io/FAQ/
It may also constrain the way we release VIBes viewer binaries to fulfill the LGPL requirements (maybe add a notice about how to recompile, but I think that source code distributions are LGPL compatible).

[black-puppydog]

I just realized this as well. Vibes doesn't seem to have any license attached. Ibex is licensed as LGPL, maybe the authors of vibes could agree to go that way as well?

[simchanu29]

Without any licencing copyright rules apply according to Github :

However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work.

Which means that legally all rights are reserved and this code is not Open Source nor Free.

Is there any active maintainer to solve the licensing issues ?