Regard3D license

Regard3D is completely free to use. All work created with Regard3D can be used freely, for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

This software has been carefully implemented and tested. The author can however not be held responsible for any damages this software my cause.

The source code of Regard3D is released under the MIT license:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Regard3D contains many third-party libraries and programs. All of them are published under an open-source license and, as far as I know, not restricted in their use or encumbered by patents. This means that all work created with Regard3D can be used freely, commercially or non-commercially. Please inform the author when you believe that part of Regard3D violates a license or a patent.

Third-party programs

Regard3D ships with the following third-party programs:

Multi-View Environment, Floating Scale Surface Reconstruction and 3D Reconstruction Texturing are all released under the BSD 3-Clause License. MVE contains an implementation of the patented SIFT algorithm, but it is only used in the program sfmrecon which is not included with Regard3D. The texturing subprogram has a dependency to the library coldet, which is released under LGPL.
CMVS/PMVS2 are released under the GPL. The current source code is stored here.
Poisson Surface Reconstruction is released under the 3-clause BSD license.
SMVS is released under the 3-clause BSD license.

Third-party libraries

Regard3D is linked with the following third-party libraries:

OpenMVG, released under the Mozilla Public License
Daisy (in fact currently not used in the code): BSD license
A-KAZE: BSD license
LIOP (implementation taken from VLFEAT): BSD license
AssImp: BSD license
wxWidgets: wxWindows Library Licence (similar to LGPL)
Point cloud library: 3-clause BSD license
FLANN: BSD license
OpenSceneGraph: OpenSceneGraph Public License (based on the LGPL)
Eigen: Mozilla Public License, parts under LGPL
boost: Boost Software License
OpenCV: BSD license
OpenBLAS (only on Windows): BSD license
SuiteSparse: Different licenses, some are LGPL, some GPL (available under a commercial license as well). Regard3D uses only the parts licensed under LGPL (amd, camd, ccolamd, cholmod compiled with -NGPL)
Ceres: New BSD license
Metis: Apache License
OpenExif: BSD license
Coin-Osi, Coin-Clp: Eclipse Public License
EasyExif: New BSD license
Lemon: Boost Software License
stlPlus: BSD license
TinyThread++: zlib/libpng license
Threading Building Blocks: GPL with runtime exception (currently only used on Mac OS X)
FreeType: FreeType license (BSD-style)
jpeg: Own license
libtiff: BSD-like license
libpng: libpng license
zlib: zlib license
lzma: Public domain
CPUID: 3-clause BSD license
Fast-AKAZE: 3-clause BSD license
KGraph: 2-clause BSD license
MRPT: MIT license

Regard3D is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.