GearBox Overview

Goals

Provide software tools which could be integrated into complete systems with one of many software integration frameworks.

GearBox is not a framework. It does not contain any "glue" code to help you assemble a complete system.

GearBox does not compete with any existing or future frameworks. Frameworks are still and will continue to be required to customize the available software to a particular application. But the task of designing and implementing a framework is hard enough without having to worry about the nitty-gritty of algorithm and driver implemention.

More on the rationale and the objectives for the project can be found in GearBox Publications.

Licence

The GearBox project does not, as a policy, require code to conform to any specific license to be included in the distribution. However, the code is required to have a license and the license must be Open Source. That is the official policy.

For a complete up-to-date list of licenses see the LICENSE file included in your distribution.

Copyright

Copyright belongs to developers and major contributors. The copyright is recorded in a comment block at the top of every source file.

Details

For more details see Principles of Project Operation

OS support

In principle GearBox can be deployed as widely as CMake allows. For a detailed list of OS support see the list of currently available software.

History

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