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The following parties are acknowledged for producing tools which are used within Open CASCADE Technology libraries or for release preparation.

You are hereby informed that all rights to the software listed below belong to its respective authors and such software may not be freely available and/or be free of charge for any kind of use or purpose. We strongly recommend that you carefully read the license of these products and, in case you need any further information, directly contact their authors.


Qt
is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with graphical user interface (GUI). Qt is free and open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. In OCCT Qt is used for programming samples. If you need further information on Qt, please, refer to Qt Homepage.

 

Tcl is a high-level programming language. Tk is a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, with buttons, menus, listboxes, scrollbars, and so on. Taken together Tcl and Tk provide a solution to develop cross-platform graphical user interfaces with a native look and feel. Tcl/Tk is under copyright by Scriptics Corp., Sun Microsystems, and other companies. However, Tcl/Tk is an open source, and the copyright allows you to use, modify, and redistribute Tcl/Tk for any purpose, without an explicit license agreement and without paying any license fees or royalties. To use Tcl/Tk, please refer to the Licensing Terms.
 

Robert Boehne has developed GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool scripts and makefiles for the Open CASCADE project http://sourceforge.net/projects/autoopencas/, which became an initial groundwork for the build scripts based on respective GNU tools (autoconf, automake and libtool) in Open CASCADE Technology version 4.0. These scripts are now maintained by the OPEN CASCADE company.
 

GL2PS is developed by Christophe Geuzaine and others. It is OpenGL to PostScript printing library The library is licensed under GL2PS LICENSE http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/COPYING.GL2PS Version 2, November 2003.

 

FreeType 2  is developed by Antoine Leca, David Turner, Werner Lemberg and others. It is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of  producing high-quality output (glyph images). This product  can be used in graphic libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products.

FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL.

 

Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you to take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Threading Building Blocks is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance. TBB is available under GPLv2 license with the runtime exception.

Open CASCADE Technology WOK module on Windows also makes use of LGPL-licensed C routines - regexp and getopt, taken from GNU C library.

 

Doxygen (Copyright © 1997-2010 by Dimitri van Heesch) is open source documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL, PHP and C#. This product is used in Open CASCADE Technology for automatic creation of Technical Documentation from C++ header files.  If you need further information on Doxygen, please refer to http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html.

 

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software developed by John Ellson, Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Arif Bilgin. Graph visualization is representiation of structured information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. This product is used together with Doxygen in Open CASCADE Technology for automatic creation of Technical Documentation (generation of dependency graphs). Current versions of Graphviz are licensed on an open source basis only under The Eclipse Public License (EPL).

 

Inno Setup is a free script-driven installation system created in CodeGear Delphi by Jordan Russell. In OCCT Inno Setup is used to create Installation Wizard on Windows. It is licensed under Inno Setup License.

 

FreeImage is an Open Source library supporting popular graphics image formats, such as PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others used by multimedia applications. This library is developed by Hervé Drolon and Floris van den Berg. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X). FreeImage is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (GPLv2) and the FreeImage Public License (FIPL).

 

Adobe Systems, Inc. provides Adobe Acrobat Professional, which is a software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). This product is used in OCCT for the development and update of User's Guides.

The same developer provides Robohelp HTML that allows developing online Help for applications that are run on the Web and on Intranets. Robohelp HTML X5.0.2 is used in OCCT for the development and update of OCCT Overview.  

 

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
 

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
 

Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.