Re: need help with openscad's license
On 01/08/2012 10:22 PM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:22:38 +0100 chrysn wrote:
>
>> hello debian-legal,
>
> Hello chrysn!
>
>>
>> as a part of my intent to package openscad (#583476), i want to ask you
>> for help with the package's licensing.
>
> Thanks for trying hard to solve this issue in the best possible way.
>
>>
>> as outlined in the itp, the package is gpl-2+ itself and depends heavily
>> on libcgal, which is qpl and thus in non-free, which sends openscad to
>> contrib.
>
> Have you tried to persuade libcgal copyright holder(s) to re-license
> libcgal under the GNU GPL v2 or later, or under the GNU LGPL v2.1, or,
> at least, to dual-license it under the QPL and one GPLv2-compatible
> license?
> This much more radical approach could make openscad suitable for
> inclusion in Debian main!
> Now *that* would be something really worth fighting for! ;-)
AFAIK CGAL 4.0 will be GPL/LGPL. So, all OpenSCAD would need to do is
jump from 3.9 to 4 of CGAL. No idea how big that jump is, though...
Michael
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