Licenses

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MeshLab uses some third party open source libraries for its working. Here is the complete lists of the projects that we gratefully thanks for their kind liberality. MeshLab is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).


  • VCG Library, developed at the Visual Computing Group - ISTI - CNR. Responsible for all the mesh processing and rendering tasks. (GPL)
  • QT, TrollTech the standard framework for high performance, cross-platform application development.
  • GLEW: The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (BSD)
  • lib3ds a software library for managing 3D-Studio Release 3 and 4 ".3DS" files. (LGPL)
  • bzip2 a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. (BSD)
  • Universal 3D Sample Software Set of libraries to write, read, extend, render and interact with U3D-formatted data, as defined by standard ECMA-363. This library is not directly linked but the U3D plugin invokes the idtfcoverted executable, whose sources are provided with the examples of the library. A binary of the idtfconverter is directly provided with the MeshLab distribution.
  • Poisson Surface reconstrution, heavily based on the code kindly provided by Michael Kazhdan and Matthew Bolitho (custom license thanks Misha and Matthew!)
  • movie15 Latex package a LaTeX style to embed movies, sounds and 3D objects into PDF documents; the needed glue to generating pdf with embedded U3D objects.
  • Some of the icons of the editing tools came from the Tango Icon Library projects.
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Privacy Disclaimer

MeshLab will automatically check for the availability of updated versions and will notify the need of upgrading the software to the users. For this reason, from time to time, MeshLab will issue a http network connection. If you prefer that MeshLab does not communicate in any way with its developers, simply use a plain firewall and prevent any MeshLab access to the network. This will not limit in any way the normal behavior of MeshLab (apart from getting notified of new MeshLab releases) Moreover, when using MeshLab, it locally collects some aggregated statistical data about only the specific usage of MeshLab: the number and size of the opened/saved meshes; nothing more. Periodically this information is sent back to the developers. This data will be used for statistical analysis and for the assessment of the MeshLab usage.

We would like to remark that the kind of information collected by MeshLab is probably by far less sensitive than the information that is silently collected by most web sites when you surf them: IP address, visited pages, frequency of return. We would also like to stress that we really need this information in order to assess how diffusely MeshLab is used and what is its impact on the 3D community.

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Acknowledgments

Some of the MeshLab developers got financial support for their work. For the Italian CNR employees we acknowledge the financial support of the following projects:

  • “EPOCH” (EU Network of Excellence, IST-2002-507382)
  • MIUR "BLU-ARCHEOSYS", 2006-2009
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