Hi!
I discovered a very good GPL 3D-CAD system called freecad
http://free-cad.sourceforge.net
which is not yet debianized at the moment. However in its documentation
http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?Install
says that we need these libraries
- Python (http://www.python.org), I have 2.3
- Qt (http://www.trolltech.no), >= 3.2.x, I have 3.2.1
- Coin3D (http://www.coin3d.org), >= 2.x, I have 2.2.1
- SoQt? (
http://www.coin3d.org), >= 1.x, I have 1.0.2
- OpenCascade? (
http://www.opencascade.org), you need >=5.1 here, I have 5.2
- Xercesc (downloads http://xml.apache.org/dist/xercesc/), mine is 2.4
And for the Mesh module of FreeCAD the additional libraries
- GTS Library (http://gts.sourceforge.net), I have 0.7.3
- Wild Magic (http://www.geometrictools.com), I have 3.3
to compile. However OpenCascade
http://www.opencascade.org/occ/license/
and Wild Magic
http://www.geometrictools.com/License/WildMagic3License.pdf
Are the licenses of these libraries above compliant to Debian's
requirements? If so, then can it be debianized and put into the
main repository? If not, then can they still go to
contrib/non-free sections, so that someone can still debianize free-cad
and put it in the contrib section?