Bug#617613: freecad: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:38:19 -0400 Andres Cimmarusti wrote:

[...]
> > Actually there is some chance for the license  to be changed. Daniel Brunier
> > Coulin from OpenCASCADE SAS announced that they are "currently considering
> > relicensing OCCT to LGPL".[1] According to him the decistion will be made in a
> > couple of weeks.
> >
> > [1] https://mail.gna.org/public/pythonocc-users/2012-01/msg00019.html
> 
> It's been well over two weeks and the opencascade license shows no
> change. Any news regarding this? the mailing thread shows no updates.

Hi,
unfortunately no re-licensing of OpenCASCADE Technology has happened
yet. The decision was postponed [2], again!, and for several months...

[2] http://dev.opencascade.org/index.php?q=node/31#comment-63

Since I have been pestering OpenCASCADE S.A.S. since April 2009, trying
to push this re-licensing, you may well imagine my frustration...  :-(


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