[cad-linux-dev] Re: BRL-CAD is released as Open Source
- From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:21:35 +0100
to be honest i have not used BRL since i think 4.4 or maybe 5.x.
has a drawing editor been added?
On Wed January 12 2005 05:36 pm, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote:
> As many of you may have already noticed via the /. announcement on
> Saturday and other news postings, BRL-CAD is now released as open source.
>
> In conjunction with this change, there is a new website:
>
> http://brlcad.org
> and
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/
>
> BRL-CAD is a powerful Combinatorial/Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
> solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor,
> ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis,
> network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing
> tools, and an embedded scripting language.
>
> From the /. posting, BRL-CAD is one of the many legacies of the late
> Michael Muuss, author of ping. The package began on the PDP-11 and VAX
> 11/780--before the emergence of ANSI/ISO C language standards--and boasts
> one of the first parallel Ray tracers in existence. Today BRL-CAD has over
> 750,000 lines of source code. It incorporates both 3D modeling and
> rendering capabilities, and supports an API for user-developed geometric
> analysis applications. It continues to be developed and maintained by the
> U.S. Army Research Laboratory
>
> It has been released under the GPL, LGPL, GFDL, and BSD licenses.
> Different portions of the package are covered under a different license.
> The basic break-down is that the BRL-CAD libraries are LGPL, the
> documentation is mostly GFDL (manpages, html, text, etc), the build system
> is mostly BSD or in the public domain, and the rest (the applications) is
> under the GPL.
>
> Feel free to stop by #bzflag or irc.freenode.net to get involved with the
> project. (developers and users welcome, patches very welcome)
>
> Cheers!
> Sean Morrison
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