Re: Bug#464400: opencascade packages
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> wrote:
> The FreeCAD libraries can go into contrib, but the main GPL app cannot
> -- unless Debian concludes that the OpenCASCADE license is
> GPL-compatible! At this point, I don't see why they wouldn't, but it's
> hard to tell.
So you think OpenCASCADE license is both DFSG-free and GPL compatible?
That would be very nice. If this would not be the case, distributing
FreeCAD would be a legal problem, since they combine GPL code (Qt4
plus their own) with OpenCASCADE.
I just compiled FreeCAD with Debianized libraries and it does import
and display IGES rather well, so getting it to some section of Debian
would be good. I used a version of your OpenCASCADE packaging built
with the FreeBSD tarball, so it seems to work somehow, although I did
have some build errors in FreeCAD related to OpenCASCADE. I'll send a
patch when I find time to sort them all out.
I also had to sort of fix #415382 in soqt in order to get a version of
the library which links against Qt4. I will probably post a proper
patch to the bugreport soon, in case someone else wants to build
FreeCAD without non-debian libraries.
Teemu
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