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Re: OpenCASCADE ACCEPTED!



On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:59 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 14/06/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So this is what needs to be replaced?
> >
> >      http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html
> 
> So I'm thinking that it's not a bad idea to first ask if he's willing
> to relicense his code with a free license... If he's afraid of
> commercial exploitation, under the GPL perhaps. These requests have to
> be extremely diplomatic. I need some help phrasing the request. I want
> to say something along the lines, of "Hey, your software looks great,
> would you consider freeing it up? Here's why commercial restrictions
> are non-free. 
The next part doesn't sound so diplomatic to me.
> Oh, if you refuse, you understand that we're going to
> try to reimplement your software based on the ideas of your published
> papers, as allowed by US copyright law. It would be easier for us if
> you simply allowed your software to be redistributed under a free
> license."
> 
> Help?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
> 
> 


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