On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:06:47 -0800 (PST) Walter Landry wrote: [...] > The license was never really an issue. There was an explanatory note > which contradicted the license and seemed to add non-free terms, but > that is not the license. As I summarized in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/10/msg00000.html the license itself is not really a show-stopper (as long as we neglect how upstream interpret it, a strategy that should not be taken lightly, IMHO). The real problem is the incompatibility of the OCTPL with the GPL: see again the above-cited message, which, unfortunately, received no reply at all from debian-legal participants. An update on the situation follows. There's still no progress on the re-licensing of Open CASCADE: the management (of Open CASCADE S.A.S.) has not yet discussed the matter and it seems that no decision is going to be taken in a short time frame. I am going on contacting them periodically and asking them if there's some progress, but, apparently, I am not persuasive enough... :-( As a consequence, if nobody else helps me by contacting upstream and persuading them to re-license under the LGPLv2.1, I am afraid that two serious bugs have to be filed against freecad and gmsh. I was waiting to do this, since I was hoping that the problem could be solved by the re-licensing of opencascade, but now I am beginning to lose the hope that this can happen in a reasonable time frame. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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