Sony Imageworks releases source code of 5 in-house projects

Tue Aug 4, 2009 by Alexandre Prokoudine

OSL / Scala Migrations / Field3D / pystring / Maya Reticle

On July 30, Sony ImageWorks have released five of their in-house tools as open source software.

CTO Rob Bredow writes:

Open Source: It's always been a part of what makes Imageworks tick. However, up until now we haven't had a chance to contribute back to the open source community. We're beginning to change that now.

We've chosen 5 projects to release as open source. This software can be freely used by large and small studios around the world. We've intentionally chosen popular non-restrictive licensing models to help ensure you have lots of options.

The five projects Sony has released are:

OSL – Open Shading Language
Scala Migrations – Database Library Manager
Field3D – Voxel Data storage library
pystring – Python String Handling in C++
Maya Reticle – Flexible camera guides for Maya

This software is licensed under a BSD license.

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