[rescue] BRL-CAD, anyone?

[Dave McGuire]

On June 7, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > http://ftp.arl.army.mil/brlcad
> 
> I really am unhappy with the licensing of it.
> 
> It does stuff that is theoretically easy to program ones self.  Of
> course, the trick as always is making a decent UI to go with the maths
> and geometries.  Since this is supposedly used for real work, one
> would expect that UI to be good.
> 
> Generally, I'm frustrated at the level of difficulty involved in
> getting a hold of BRL-Cad, the visible human dataset, and the USGS
> datasets.  There is all sorts of paper work and they charge simply
> unbelievable media fees, and puts limits on what can be done with it.
> What happened to government create IP being public domain?

  Uhh, what?  We're using it here; it was free.  What are you talking
about?

      -Dave

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