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Distributed, workflow-driven integration environment
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Possible license violations: Distribution of binary files without license information #21

Closed psychon closed 5 years ago

psychon commented 5 years ago

Looking at https://github.com/rcenvironment/rce/tree/master/de.rcenvironment.binaries.tiglviewer.win32.x86_64/resources/binaries, I see the following binary files:

At least for Qt I can point you to an FAQ entry (point 3.7 under https://www.qt.io/faq/). I am assuming that you do not have a commercial Qt license. I cannot copy&paste from that page, but the second bullet point basically says that you have to also distribute the source code of Qt (and that just providing a link to "upstream" is not enough).

(While we are at it: You might also double check the last bullet point which requires a prominent notice)

Disclaimer: IANAL

rmischke-dlr commented 5 years ago

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We have contacted the developers of that software and will address this as soon as possible.

rainman110 commented 5 years ago

The TiGL Viewer binary, which uses the Qt DLLs has the following dialog with Qt informations: QtLicense

aweinert commented 5 years ago

We have removed the TiGL Viewer binaries from the current Release 9.1.0 and added a configuration option that allows the user to supply their self-installed own instance of this program. As a next step, we will also provide another release for the RCE 8.X series to resolve the issue there as well.

Thanks again for bringing this up to us.

janflink commented 5 years ago

In the current RCE 8.3 release we have removed the TiGL Viewer binaries in the same way as in version 9.1 and the option to integrate self-installed instances has been added here as well.