| id |
cloudcompare |
| name |
CloudCompare |
| url |
https://www.cloudcompare.org |
| category |
tools |
| subcategories |
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| license |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
| license_spdx |
GPL-2.0-or-later |
| commercial |
true |
| attribution_required |
false |
| formats |
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| tags |
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| added |
2026-08-24 |
| verified |
2026-09-22 |
| status |
active |
Point-cloud / mesh tool for lidar cleanup, alignment, and sampling down to something an engine can swallow. Download page: "Free as in Free speech". Wiki License page: CCLib (core algorithms) is LGPL 2.0 and "can be integrated in any commercial or non-commercial project" if you share modifications of that lib; CloudCompare the app plus qCC_db / qCC_io / qCC_gl are GPL 2.0. license.txt in GitHub matches GPL-2-or-later for the program. Use the app on your clouds. Do not copy qCC_* into a closed engine without GPL.
- Wiki: cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=License (last edited 2015; still the page they link)
- Homepage fetch via HTML-to-markdown failed on 2026-08-24; download and wiki pages returned 200 as text
- Global Shift exists because lidar is in Earth coordinates. Apply it before export or your mesh is 1e6 units from origin
- Checklist: license on wiki + GitHub, commercial use of the app under GPL / CCLib under LGPL, no NC/ND, not a marketplace, named project, not blocklisted, lib vs app split recorded, output ownership unquoted
- The bundled
license.txt is the project's own header, not stock license text: it elects "version 2 or later", so the SPDX identifier is GPL-2.0-or-later.
- Live GitHub
license.txt (2026-09-22): "the Free Software Foundation; version 2 or later of the License"
- Live wiki License (2026-08-24): "The license of the CCLib library ... is LGPL version 2.0"
- Same page (2026-08-24): "can be integrated in any commercial or non-commercial project"
- Same page (2026-08-24): "The license of the other components is GPL (version 2.0)"
- Live GitHub
license.txt (2026-08-24): "under the terms of the GNU General Public License ... version 2 or later"