Intellectual property

Can I sell/use 3D models created with Meshroom? Can media created with Meshroom be used for advertising, publications, training purposes, etc.?

Yes. The intellectual property of media created with Meshroom belongs to you.

Can I support Meshroom financially?

If you really like Meshroom or even use it commercially, consider becoming a sponsor. Sponsorship funds will be used to maintain AliceVision Meshroom. You can also visit our donation page for more options (if you prefer bank transfer, select "Learn More About Sponsorship" at the bottom of the page to find the account information). Thank you :)

What data will you keep and how is it protected?

AliceVision Meshroom (software) does not collect or share (personal) data that might be associated with the media used or created by Meshroom. How your data is shared is up to you.

Do we need to buy a license to use AliceVision Meshroom?

No, AliceVision Meshroom is licensed under an open source license that allows free personal and commercial use. Please read the following section about the license carefully.

How is AliceVision Meshroom licensed? Are there any specific license agreements or restrictions for corporate use?

Meshroom is released under Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. The licence agreement can be found here: https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/blob/develop/LICENSE-MPL2.md

Here you can find a more practical explanation of what you can do with this licence https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-(mpl-2)

There are no additional restrictions for corporate use.

Can we store the installer or any files of this tool on our file servers or network, and share them with multiple users?

The short answer is yes. For details please read the Mozilla Public License text linked above.

If you make money from or save money by using Meshroom, please consider giving back to the community. You can become a sponsor, place a one-time donation or contribute code. This will help to maintain and improve AliceVision Meshroom. Thank you.

Do I need to give credits? / Logo / How to cite

• For media created in Meshroom:

No, you do not need to give credit to Meshroom for media created with the software.

If you like the software you are free to credit it in you work.

• If you are enthusiastic about Meshroom and want to give credit (in movie credits for example) you may do so. You may use the Meshroom logo (HQ). If you use the AliceVision (and not the Meshroom GUI), you may use the AV logo. You may not use the logos for any other purpose than to give credit or promote the software.

We´d be happy to hear from you on how you make use of our software. You can post your use case to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alicevision or in https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/discussions/categories/show-and-tell

Restriction: The logos and names may not be used in any way that suggests that AliceVison/Meshroom is affiliated with, sponsors, approves or endorses you, your organization, your websites, your products or your services, unless such a relationship exists.

Also note that AliceVision® is a registered trademark.

If you use this project for research, please cite:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03351139

@inproceedings{alicevision2021,
  title={{A}liceVision {M}eshroom: An open-source {3D} reconstruction pipeline},
  authors={Carsten Griwodz, Simone Gasparini, Lilian Calvet, Pierre Gurdjos, Fabien Castan, Benoit Maujean, Gregoire De Lillo, Yann Lanthony},
  booktitle={Proc. 12th ACM Multimed. Syst. Conf. - MMSys '21},
  doi = {10.1145/3458305.3478443}
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year = {2021}
}

AliceVision BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://github.com/alicevision/AliceVision/blob/develop/BIBLIOGRAPHY.md