On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:31:21 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > Usertags: rm Hello Ben! > > freecad contains GPLv2 code and links with a GPL-licensed library (Coin3D) > and links to OCTPL (non-GPL-compatible) > libraries (bug #617613)/ True. > This is supposed to be fixed soon as there is > a new version of libopencascade under a BSD licence > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617613#153>. No, wait: this does not look correct, unfortunately! There is no re-licensing under the BSD for OpenCASCADE Technology going on (I wish there were!!!). Please re-read the message you cited: it's Coin3D that was re-licensed under the BSD. Once FreeCAD links with this BSD-licensed Coin3D version and stops incorporating any GPL-licensed code, *at that point* FreeCAD will be able to legally link with the still GPL-incompatible OpenCASCADE Technology framework, without any distribution issue. Not an ideal solution, but still a solution... > > Since the relicensed libopencascade s/libopencascade/libcoin/ > is not available in Debian and > probably will not get into wheezy, I think freecad should be removed > from stable and testing. This is what I wanted to avoid: I have struggled since April 2009 in order to persuade OpenCASCADE S.A.S. to re-license the OpenCASCADE Technology framework under GPL-compatible terms... Unfortunately no result has been obtained yet. :-( In the meanwhile, the (suboptimal) solution described above (FreeCAD that links with no GPL-licensed code and incorporates no GPL-licensed code, in order to be able to link with GPL-incompatible code) has been devised and is being implemented. I don't know whether this is enough to grant a wheezy-ignore tag to bug #617613... Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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