A Dilluns 21 Abril 2008, Adam C Powell IV va escriure: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:09 +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > > 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. > > As I see it, the license itself is free (can you find any non-free > parts?). yes, it's non free at least in 2006 when I asked it to debian-legal and I interchanged some private mails with Aurelien Jarno. > But right now a small handful of non-free bits, such as > triangle, will prevent it from entering main. tetgen? > It will take some time to > disentangle these bits, so why not first upload to non-free, then when > we have time to disentangle it, then put the free majority in main? of course. But I don't think that it could be in main. > > 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. > > Right, we can't count on a license change, though it doesn't hurt to > ask. And having it in non-free can be good as well, as you mention. I asked in 2006 and I could ask again. > > > > 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. > > 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. ? it's gpl .... is public the discussion? It's just curiosity. > > This is an issue for Salomé as well: it is LGPL, but it links with GPL > Qt, so it can't go into Debian unless the OCC license is GPL-compatible > and OCC will need to be in main. It's a mistake a soft that links against GPL library is GPL. It couldn't be LGPL. Regards, Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia
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