[gdal-dev] Re: open source tool for TIN visualization

[Howard Butler]

On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:

>> I have not tried these LIDAR LAS tools, but they looked quite  
>> interesting:
>>
>> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/
>
> Be careful here -- it is not clear that Isenburg's tools are in fact  
> OSI-compliant open source.  (He has lots of good stuff, and some of  
> us wish it he was clearer on this point.)

Indeed.  Martin's tools are definitely not OSI-compliant open source,  
and you can contact him for licensing information if you wish to  
include his code in your softwares.  He did grant libLAS the ability  
to use a port of his lastools commandline utilities (las2las, las2txt  
and so on ... the more mundane administrative-type stuff) however.

Howard