A Dilluns 21 Abril 2008, Teemu Ikonen va escriure: > 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? I don't think so, Adam. Ask to Aurelien Jarno. I asked it in 2006. > 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. ummm, sells bad. > 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. About this. I have sent a patch to the debian maintainer (Steve M. Robbins) . I hope that soon we will have both versions of the library. The original message was mine ... Regards, Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia
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