Doubt about license

[esuig]

Hello,

hope it is not a trivial question. I tried to study the license but I'm not sure about an aspect. Can I use this library in a closed source commercial application without redistributing the code? I would not modify the library, just use it as it is now and it would be used to perform constrained triangulations.

Many thanks

[artem-ogre]

Hi, @esuig,

Short answer is yes, it is possible in this case. You only need to inform the users that you use CDT and where they can obtain its source code from.

You must inform the recipients where they can get the source for the MPLed code in the executable program or library you are distributing

Check Q8 of the official MPL-2.0 FAQ and Section 3.2 of the MPL-2.0 license for the details.

[artem-ogre]

I am obviously curious about CDT usages: may I ask what application is it? :)

[esuig]

Hello,
I'm still evaluating, application does not exist yet, however it should be related to pathfinding.

[esuig]

So, to inform the user I could for example include a file in the documentation of the software, or among the installation files, is this correct?

[artem-ogre]

For example, that's how Google Maps for iOS do it: they have "Open-source licenses" entry in settings "About, terms and privacy".
And that's how they mention Eigen (which is MPL-2.0 too):

So you could use:

This software is based part on CDT (C++ library for constrained Delaunay triangulation):
Copyright © 2019 Leica Geosystems Technology AB
Copyright © The CDT Contributors
Licensed under the MPL-2.0 license.
https://github.com/artem-ogre/CDT
${INSERT_FULL_MPL_2.0_TEXT}

Update: edited the template sightly

[esuig]

Thank you very much