Re: Bug#464400: opencascade packages
A Dilluns 21 Abril 2008, Adam C Powell IV va escriure:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 21:25 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>
wrote:
> > > I haven't had much time for this recently, but my todo list consists
> > > of:
> > >
> > > * Switch to the tarball used by FreeBSD (and soon Gentoo) at:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/thierry/ *
> > > Conduct a thorough license/copyright "audit" of the tarball to make
> > > sure we have everything documented in the copyright file. * Upload to
> > > non-free, will probably take several iterations to get in.
> > > * Separate out the non-free bits.
> > > * Upload to main with non-free parts in separate package, again
> > > will probably take several iterations.
> > > * Use Jason Kraftcheck's scripts to separate it into a few
> > > packages, and re-upload.
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan in general, but will the FreeBDS tarball stay
> > up to date with the upstream version? Well, maybe it's too early to
> > worry about that.
I have followed this thread with a lot of interest. I don't think the
OpenCascade was free in the way to put it in debian, so to me it's a bit ....
I don't know in a polite words ...
<unpolite>
touch my b..
</unpolite>
than you spend a lot of hours in package some huge soft to nonfree. Well, I
know, they have their rights. But this kind of half-license half-open
half-nonfree are more problematic (and close) than open (free) and feasible.
Howeber, as all in this life has a lot of buts:
- if we have opencascade, another great free soft that use OpenCascade could
be inside.
- if we have opencascade, maybe they want to relax their license ....
I don't know... just my feelings in this. We can try to begin a campain to ask
to OpenCascade about a change in their licences .... but this is utopia.
[...]
> > Yes, but I can't guarantee I can spend much time on opencascade. I'm
> > interested in free tools for 3D CAD, and as a first step I would like
> > to be able to display a 3D models from IGES files. Apparently FreeCAD
> > ( http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page )
> > can do this, but it needs Opencascade to compile.
>
FreeCad seems a great soft. I have tested the deb package (with opencascade
inside. It would be nice to have a deb package ... at least in contrib.
Leo
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