COPYING.md

AliceVision License

AliceVision is licensed under the MPL2 license.

CMPMVS has been the first step to build the AliceVision MVS pipeline and was CTU proprietary solution before being part of AliceVision.
openMVG has been the first step to build the AliceVision SfM pipeline and was released under MPLv2.
libmv has been an important source of inspiration for the design and part of the code of the "multiview" and "robustEstimation" modules are based on the libmv code released under MIT, see LICENSE-MIT-libmv.md.

It also contains one file with different license:

• kvld
  src/aliceVision/matching/kvld
  Copyright (C) 2011-12 Zhe Liu and Pierre Moulon.
  This file was first released under BSD-2-Clause license, see LICENSE-BSD-2-Clause.

Third parties licenses

This program is based on works distributed under the terms of another license(s) and other copyright notice(s).

• Alembic (optional)
  http://www.alembic.io
  Copyright 2009-2015 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. or Lucasfilm Ltd.
  Copyright 2009-2015 Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause.

• Boost
  http://www.boost.org
  Distributed under the Boost Software License.

• CCTag (optional)
  https://github.com/alicevision/CCTag
  Copyright 2016, Simula Research Laboratory
  Distributed under the MPL2 license.

• Ceres-Solver
  http://ceres-solver.org
  Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the New BSD licence.

• Clp
  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 International Business Machines Corporation
  and others. All Rights Reserved.
  Distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

• CoinUtils
  Copyright (C) 1987, 2009 International Business Machines Corporation
  and others. All Rights Reserved.
  Distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

• CUDA (required for the depth map computation)
  See License.

• cxsparse (optional)
  Copyright (c) 2006-2012, Timothy A. Davis.
  Distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

• Eigen
  http://eigen.tuxfamily.org
  Copyright (c) Eigen authors.
  Distributed under the MPL2 license.
  Compiled with EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY to ensure MPL2 compatible code.

• Expat
  https://libexpat.github.io/ Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper Copyright (c) 2001-2022 Expat maintainers Distributed under the MIT/X Consortium license

• Flann
  https://www.cs.ubc.ca/research/flann
  Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Marius Muja ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
  Copyright (c) 2008-2011 David G. Lowe ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD License.

• Geogram
  http://alice.loria.fr/software/geogram/doc/html/index.html
  Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Bruno Levy. All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• Histogram
  Copyright (c) Jansson Consulting & Pierre Moulon.
  Distributed under the MPL2 license.

• HtmlDoc
  Copyright (c) Pierre Moulon.
  Distributed under the MPL2 license.

• Lemon
  http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/trac/lemon
  Copyright (c) Lemon authors.
  Distributed under the Boost License 1.0.

• MeshSDFilter
  https://github.com/bldeng/MeshSDFilter
  Copyright (c) 2017, Bailin Deng. All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• Nanoflann
  https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann
  Copyright 2008-2009 Marius Muja ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
  Copyright 2008-2009 David G. Lowe ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
  Copyright 2011 Jose L. Blanco ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD License.

• OpenCV (optional)
  https://opencv.org
  Copyright (C) 2000-2016, Intel Corporation, all rights reserved.
  Copyright (C) 2009-2011, Willow Garage Inc., all rights reserved.
  Copyright (C) 2009-2016, NVIDIA Corporation, all rights reserved.
  Copyright (C) 2010-2013, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., all rights reserved.
  Copyright (C) 2015-2016, OpenCV Foundation, all rights reserved.
  Copyright (C) 2015-2016, Itseez Inc., all rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• OpenEXR (required by OpenImageIO and used in the pipeline)
  http://www.openexr.com
  Copyright (c) 2002, Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• OpenGV (optional)
  https://laurentkneip.github.io/opengv
  Copyright (c) 2013 Laurent Kneip, The Australian National University ANU. All rights reserved
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• OpenImageIO
  https://openimageio.org
  Copyright 2008-2016 Larry Gritz et al.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause.

• OpenMesh (required by MeshSDFilter)
  http://openmesh.org
  Copyright (c) 2001-2015, RWTH-Aachen University.
  Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia. All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD-3-Clause

• Osi
  Copyright (C) 2000 International Business Machines Corporation
  and others. All Rights Reserved.
  Distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

• PopSift (optional)
  https://github.com/alicevision/popsift
  Copyright 2016, Simula Research Laboratory
  Distributed under the MPL2 license. SIFT was patented in the United States from 1999-03-08 to 2020-03-28. See the patent link for more information.

• vectorGraphics
  Copyright (c) Pierre Moulon
  Distributed under the MPL2 license.

• vlfeat
  http://www.vlfeat.org
  Copyright (C) 2007-12 Andrea Vedaldi and Brian Fulkerson. All rights reserved.
  Distributed under the BSD License. SIFT was patented in the United States from 1999-03-08 to 2020-03-28. See the patent link for more information.

• zlib (optional)
  https://zlib.net
  Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly
  Distributed under the zlib license.