Re: May I upload FreeCAD into wheezy-backports?
On Sun, 19 May 2013 16:44:58 +0200, Arnt wrote in message
<[🔎] 20130519164458.7d74c55d@nb6.lan>:
> On Sun, 19 May 2013 12:01:05 +0200, Anton wrote in message
> <[🔎] 5198A2E1.1070804@debian.org>:
>
> > On 05/19/2013 11:44 AM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:04:54 +0200 Anton Gladky wrote:
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> ..a nice pointy way is fork it as "UNFreeCAD" and drop all this
> non-compliant stuff into non-free or contrib where it belongs.
>
> > > That's really unfortunate: it's the exact scenario that I feared
> > > it would materialize.
> > > That's why I have been struggling since April 2009 in
> > > order to persuade OpenCASCADE S.A.S. to re-license the OpenCASCADE
> > > Technology framework under GPL-compatible terms...
> > > No public news from them on this front yet, sadly. :-(
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/617613#173
>
> ..this bug BS started 2 years ago. I recommend nice big noisy press
> releases pointing out the reality of these nice big flashy buzz words
> abused here.
..a little too triggerhappy here; in case someone else missed the
abused buzz words, I was trying to refer to "Open" and "Free". ;o)
...
> ..another candidate for nice pointy forks, "ClosedCascade".
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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