3DSMAX plugins licenses issue
Loic Dachary
loic at gnu.org
Wed Mar 6 10:26:08 UTC 2002
Karin Kosina writes:
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> ### Loic Dachary [Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:52:31PM +0100]
> > In the case of the 3DSMAX plugin, it may (not sure) very well
> > be the case that the binary contains some program and data that were
> > extracted from the 3DSMAX distribution during the compilation/linking
> > process and therefore subject to the same licensing terms.
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> Oh, I see. Thanks a lot for the explanation.
>
> I thought that "plugin" meant "dynamically loadable piece of object code
> that is independent of the application" (like it does on Mac OS X... I
> guess I've done too much development[*] on that platform recently...)
In theory it should be independant, yes. In practice it is unclear
and that's part of the problem.
Cheers,
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